3 ms·
That would be nice, but first you have to get around the nightmarish world of for-profit corporations that control all prisoner access to information and commun
by egypturnash 4y ago
That would be nice, but first you have to get around the nightmarish world of for-profit corporations that control all prisoner access to information and communication in the US. The system is designed to bleed every penny possible from prisoners and their families, not to rehabilitate them.
- ALittleLight 4y agoI think for profit prisons are a small fraction of the carceral system. Most prisons are government run. Even in the case of private prisons what we need is to align incentives. We shouldn't be mainly paying per inmate, but rather give the private prison X% of the inmate's taxes after release and nothing if the inmate offends again. The idea is, we don't want to incentivize prisons to just hold people - that actually incentivizes the prisons to promote recidivism. We do want the prisons to impart job and life skills that will make the prisoner a productive and law abiding member of society after release.
- kritr 4y agoLooks like around 8.4% of prisons were private in the US in 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison
- melagonster 4y agolet 90% people can learn something there is a good Idea.