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There are certainly problems with the for-profit prison industry. For example: 1. Is it reasonable to expect a corporation that wants to expand its "clientele
by beloch 13y ago
There are certainly problems with the for-profit prison industry. For example:
1. Is it reasonable to expect a corporation that wants to expand its "clientele" to rehabilitate prisoners into law-abiding citizens rather than repeat offenders?
2. Is it really a surprise that the prison industry has managed to reform the law to drum up business in a country where Mickey Mouse will never enter the public domain?
- yummyfajitas 13y agoThe incentives for (2) are reduced by privatization. Any individual prison operator can sit around freeloading while the other guys lobby for harsher laws. In contrast, in a system with government run prisons, the prison guard union has strong incentive for rent seeking - they will capture all the rents. Privatization has problems, but this isn't one of them.