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>many prisons are run by for-profit companies. Citation for the "Many"? Only about 5% of prisoners are in private prisons.
by mason240 12y ago
>many prisons are run by for-profit companies.
Citation for the "Many"?
Only about 5% of prisoners are in private prisons.
- Mikeb85 12y agoGiven how many prisons are in the US, that probably still qualifies as 'many'...
- spacemanmatt 12y agoI've got 8.4% (2013 U.S. DOJ statistics) via WikiPedia
- trhway 12y agoif you add prison guards unions - which are formally non-profit, and that only means that they have no taxes to pay and they have nobody else to give the formal profit away, and as result they have all the money they collect to themselves - you'd get pretty much 100% of US prisons run by organizations with direct financial interests in growing the prisons in size and number.
- mason240 12y agoBy that logic, wouldn't every part of government with unions be "run by organizations with direct financial interests in growing...?" That seems like it would be a union problem and not a prison problem.
- cloudwalking 12y agoExcept in this case, peoples' freedoms are denied. Versus, say, waiting longer in line at the DMV.
- trhway 12y agoyep, there is a reason why military for example aren't allowed to form a union. I hope CIA/FBI/NSA aren't allowed to have it too. And prison guards and police shouldn't be allowed to. Holders of "license for violence" shouldn't have masters other than the government hierarchy they belong to thus minimizing conflict of interests.