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> Part of the problem in the US is of course that prisons are big business. This is directly debunked in the article: "By now it has become almost conventional
by wahern 8y ago
> Part of the problem in the US is of course that prisons are big business.
This is directly debunked in the article: "By now it has become almost conventional wisdom to think that private prisons are the 'real' problem with mass incarceration. But anyone seriously engaged with the subject knows that this is not the case. Even a cursory glance at numbers proves it: Ninety-two percent of people locked inside American prisons are held in publicly run, publicly funded facilities, and 99 percent of those in jail are in public jails."
- spiderfarmer 8y agoPublic jails, hiring big businesses.
- jillesvangurp 8y agoWe're still talking about well over a 120K individuals: https://www.criminaljusticeprograms.com/articles/private-prisons-vs-public-prisons/ https://www.criminaljusticeprograms.com/articles/private-pri... For reference, I believe Germany has a prison population of about 75K (on a population of 80M). Those publicly funded prisons provide plenty of cheap labor to corporations and they make use of contractors and suppliers. We're not talking about civil servants here. The bottom line is that there plenty of corporate interests in perpetuating the status quo. This system indeed sucks up a lot of public funding as well. That's kind of the point: tax payers are funding this and corporations cream off the profits through contracting, prison labor, or indeed privately run prisons. Some of these are multi billion dollar companies even.