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That's interesting. Is your issue with the for-profit criminal justice system that it's for-profit, or is it with the laws it upholds to bring the profits? In o
by jpttsn 13y ago
That's interesting. Is your issue with the for-profit criminal justice system that it's for-profit, or is it with the laws it upholds to bring the profits? In other words, would this still be a problem if all laws upheld were, to your mind, reasonable?
- mirkules 13y agoNot the OP, but I'll take a crack at it. The problem is that creating order (or, more generally speaking, rehabilitating unorderly parts of society) and making money can sometimes be adversarial processes, thus creating a conflict of interest. Since it has become profitable (for private jails/prisons) to put people in jail and keep them in jail, there is a clear incentive to punish lesser crimes more severely and to not rehabilitate jailed people fully with hopes of them becoming a repeat offender. Therefore, the problem is that privatization of the criminal justice system is at odds with what a criminal justice system should hope achieve: order, appropriate punishment, and rehabilitation of those who break the law. In fact, I would argue that it incentivizes almost the exact opposite.
- alan_cx 13y agoYes. A profit motive corrupts in favour of profit. I dont want that in a justice system which is supposed to be not corrupt.
- logfromblammo 13y agoI don't think the laws can be meaningfully separated from the system. Reasonable laws would simply be enforced unreasonably. It certainly doesn't help that unreasonable laws exist, but fixing that would not entirely solve the problem.