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I think private prisons could be a good thing if the right people had the right incentives. Imagine if there were something like recidivism bonds or cooperativ
by ada1981 4y ago
I think private prisons could be a good thing if the right people had the right incentives.
Imagine if there were something like recidivism bonds or cooperatively owned prisons, with healthy start-up culture behind it.
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoWhy should people profit off of locking people up against their will?
- ada1981 4y agoWell, I think with the right incentives, we could have better outcomes and save lives. Meaning that with for profit, there is at least a pathway to new ways of doing prison.
- mola 4y agoYeah like kickbacks. This naive view that incentives engineering could somehow fix the fact that a profit oriented creature means that any other value become subjugated to profit. Ppl are amazing at optimizing for stuff, especially stuff you can measure. If you throw away the non tangible values of decency truth fairness freedom, in favor of the very tangible value of money you'll get corporations working hard to maximize their profit in any way imaginable, including twisted lobbying to rewrite the incentives and outright kickbacks. We see this happen again and again and again, and still the "incentive engineers" want to try one more time.
- r-w 4y agoI don’t even know where to start. I guess because we as a society agree that we need protection from each other, that punishment is a thing, and that one of the ways we punish/isolate/shame people for transgressions is prison time? And because, if someone has to do it, then that someone ought to be paid to do it? …not that it’s done properly or humanely though, or that the incentives are commensurate with those ideals. It seems we can’t agree on whether people who have ever shown an ounce of imperfection get to retain their rights. Ah, politics…
- kingkawn 4y agoNo.