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If there is profit in holding people prisoner, then there is an incentive to falsely imprison people. Or give them overly long sentences.
by _hcuq 3y ago
If there is profit in holding people prisoner, then there is an incentive to falsely imprison people. Or give them overly long sentences.
- pmarreck 3y agoAgreed. There should only be a cost associated with punitive action. The incentive should be to get them out of the system (or, don't laugh- maybe rehabilitate them?), not to keep them in it.
- l33t7332273 3y agoBut the people who profit are not the people who are able to falsely imprison people.
- teh64 3y agoIncorrect, they get kickbacks: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-ma...
- l33t7332273 3y agoI think this is sort of the exception that proves the rule. The people profiting form prisons have direct incentives to increase prison populations , but the people who can actually falsely imprison people have, at best, illegal side channel incentives.
- ceejayoz 3y agoThere are non-illegal side channels, like "tough on crime" judges getting political donations from deep-pocketed interested parties.
- magic123_ 3y agoExcept when judges get kickbacks from prisons for sending them prisoners. https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-ma...