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Any prison that you made emphasizing rehabilitation instead of punishment would immediately get picked up by the news media because it's an amazing story for ge

Any prison that you made emphasizing rehabilitation instead of punishment would immediately get picked up by the news media because it's an amazing story for generating clicks. The prison would be presented to readers as the 'country club' that's 'soft on criminals' that 'YOU (underlined and bolded in the obnoxious way they do) are paying for!!!' The public doesn't want justice - they want an underclass to feel superior to.

jccalhoun 4y ago
Yep. The minute one of the prisoners reoffended, the conservatives would use it to force the politician who supported it out of office and the jail shut down even if the rate of reoffense was infinitely better than for a traditional prison.
MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
That's being optimistic, you'd probably be the target of an underhanded mudslinging campaign that's secretly funded and directed by shareholders of the for-profit system. You know, things like "grass-roots" advocacy groups popping up out of nowhere in opposition, FOX news take downs of your employees and managers, endless trouble with permits and funding while certain politicians get sweet campaign donations on the side.