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For profit prisons create incentives to boost recidivism
by vinniejames 7y ago
For profit prisons create incentives to boost recidivism
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- austincheney 7y agoFor profit prisons are irrelevant when the entire system is pay to play with bail bonds, plea bargains, attorneys fees, and so forth.
- kibwen 7y agoEven in the absence of those factors, the perverse incentives of our current system of for-profit prisons would indeed remain relevant.
- austincheney 7y agoDo you have evidence of that? It’s like claiming that a person farting contributes to global warming. It’s not statistically relevant with consideration for other factors present, even in the face of perverse incentives.
- rayiner 7y agoOkay so what’s driving recidivism in the 92% of the former prison population that wasn’t housed in a for-profit prison? What’s driving recidivism in states like Illinois and New York where private prisons have long been banned? Or the 23 other states where, although private prisons aren’t banned per se, private prisons hold 0-1% of inmates?
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- catalogia 7y agoI don't know if it's true, but I've heard that the guards at public prisons are unionized and that their union lobbies for much of the same that the private prison industry lobbies for. That they both have an incentive to create more prisoners. Do you think this is what's happening? What's your theory on it?
- mrguyorama 7y agoWhat many people seem to miss in the "only 8% of prisons are private prisons" claim is that large amounts of services and functions are run by private contractors and companies even in "public" prisons. Just because the land and building are owned by the state doesn't mean some CEO is raking in the money off of pseudo-slave labor, extortion for basic things like phone calls, and profiteering.