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We need to demand a publicly accessible audit. The fact prisons don't even have to accurately report the number of inmate deaths they have to anyone with decis
by fitblipper 6y ago
We need to demand a publicly accessible audit. The fact prisons don't even have to accurately report the number of inmate deaths they have to anyone with decision making power highlights how crazy the situation currently is.
Federal prisons are starting the process of leaving private contracts which is great. We need to force all states to do the same. Personal freedom needs to be free from market pressures and money. In az there was recently an inmate management software update which was rushed for financial reasons. A whistleblower recently revealed the software is unable to handle certain laws causing people to stay imprisoned possibly 2x longer than the law requires.
- aeternum 6y agoWouldn't an audit just increase costs even more? It usually goes like: let's audit the cost, then let's create a committee to explore why the audit we just did cost so much.
- param 6y agoTrust in government ops is valuable for success of democracy
- aeternum 6y agoSure, but for many people, audits do not build much trust.
- Raidion 6y agoI mean, short term yes, but long term no. For half a million bucks an inmate, you have a lot of room to recover some money. Googling pulls up a stat that 4000 people are incarcerated in NYC. If you could spend 1.9 million dollars and reduce expenses for a year by 1%, that pays for itself in the first year. At that scale and cost, any efficiencies pay for themselves fairly quickly.
- sershe 6y agoAre the prisons in the article private prisons? I cannot find a definite answer, but it doesn't look like it. If anything, it might be good to outsource these to private businesses to get costs under control from $500K/inmate.