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Why aren't all former penal colonies full of criminals? Maybe it's because there are a lot of crimes that are situational. For truly violent offenders who refu
by MisterBastahrd 6y ago
Why aren't all former penal colonies full of criminals? Maybe it's because there are a lot of crimes that are situational. For truly violent offenders who refuse to be rehabilitated? Keep them away from everyone else, including other prisoners. For everyone else though? We should be figuring out what they lack and help them find it.
The reason we DON'T do that is because state prisons are glorified slave rackets. The very existence of for-profit prisons is an obscenity that will be seen as being as barbaric as slavery in the long run.
- tekknik 6y agoWhich crimes are situational? And I still don’t agree that someone committing a crime is the victim here. To entertain that idea is just silly. For profit prisons are more cost effective than government run prisons. We are a capitalist society, people seek profit here, including the entirety of the country.
- MisterBastahrd 6y agoNah, what's silly is the idea that we need to rationalize uses of force against citizens by private third parties. It's fundamentally stupid and should be illegal because it incentivizes incarceration. And most people don't "seek profit" here in their day to day lives. That's zero-sum idiocy.
- tekknik 6y agoI guess we’ll just agree to disagree on the first part. And the second part, I’m guessing most people don’t work then?