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That's merely a symptom, not a cause. The cause is that US prisons are for profit organisations, and that laws are written by lobbyists and passed by bribes. Th
by jules 16y ago
That's merely a symptom, not a cause. The cause is that US prisons are for profit organisations, and that laws are written by lobbyists and passed by bribes. This shows how effective market forces are.
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- forensic 16y agothey should get paid for every prisoner they rehabilitate instead of incarcerate
- derefr 16y agoIsn't that a bit like using "bugs fixed" as a metric of programmer quality? It gives them an incentive to get lots of people in for nothing, do nothing, and then call them "rehabilitated."
- SapphireSun 16y agoSo start paying based on prisoners who get decent jobs, don't commit crimes, or go back to school or something.
- forensic 16y agoobviously the metric for "rehabilitated" needs to be judged by someone other than the prisons
- rhizome 16y agoSure, but stopping the drug war would shut down a vector for incarceration.