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> Private prison companies used to view California as one of their fastest-growing markets. This is such a bizarre and twisted sentence to hear without a hint
by warent 7y ago
> Private prison companies used to view California as one of their fastest-growing markets.
This is such a bizarre and twisted sentence to hear without a hint of irony. It's like dream/nightmare logic except in real life. In 100 years private prisons are going to be a hideous stain on our history and this is such a huge step in the right direction that it really makes me proud to be living in California and supporting the state with my tax dollars.
- lovehashbrowns 7y agoIsn't it? Companies that probably lobby for stricter and longer sentences, looking at a populated state as a "market," with caged human beings as their product. It's the most absurd concept to me, and it's even more disgusting when it's put in such an innocent manner. "Private prison companies used to view California as one of their fastest-growing markets." It just gets more disgusting the more you look into it, and the statistics around incarceration in the US.
- tenkabuto 7y agoJust to throw it out there: the idea isn't absurd; it's evil.
- lovehashbrowns 7y agoYou're completely right on that. Absolutely evil.
- bakuninsbart 7y agoIt is not just that the states are paying them to house convicts (or people accused of a crime), they can even use these people to do jobs for basically no wage. These companies are in the business of slave labor.
- geowwy 7y agoWell done California. Hopefully this is a step towards abolishing the prison system.
- artificialLimbs 7y agoI've entertained the idea of abolishing prisons in my head, but I can't imagine what we would do as an alternative. Suggestions?
- lightgreen 7y agoIf it was nonviolent crime, then island where convicted can live with shops, houses, internet, trains and parks and local elected administration and cctv, but cannot go back to the rest of the world. But if it is a serious violent crime, it should still be prison. Comfortable like in Europe or better, but preventing convicted from doing harm to others. It should not be a punishment. It should be just an isolation. Separation of bad people from good people.
- jhrmnn 7y agoYet more accurate language: bad-behaving people from good-behaving people. I realize some would say it‘s the same thing, but I always like to make the distinction.
- fastball 7y agoBrb, I'm gonna go commit a bunch of non-violent crimes so that I can live on this island paradise.
- lightgreen 7y agoYou can go to that island voluntarily without committing any crime.
- Joakal 7y agoAre you describing Australia?
- tonyarkles 7y agoWarning: It's full of criminals!
- SkyBelow 7y agoWill we still have private companies making money off of public prisons by offering different services? Will there still be individuals earning a paycheck by working at prisons? Both of these groups will have similar incentives as companies running private prisons.