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"Prisons are the symptom, not the disease" - not if you look at it like those that keep the current system alive and thriving. For them, each of those 4,916 fac
by fpp 12y ago
"Prisons are the symptom, not the disease" - not if you look at it like those that keep the current system alive and thriving. For them, each of those 4,916 facilities is a profit center renting multi-millions every year (or $Billions overall every year).
As soon as you stop allowing to turn prisons into profits with inmate occupations guaranteed by the DoJ but instead come back to a different understanding and deliver various social functions and protections of our societies in the way they are intended to be (Not for profit as a service to society that you finance / support with your taxes) this will change and together with it most likely the stop of "unnecessary arrests" as they have recently be called by the NYPD will become more permanent.
Otherwise soon the "Ministry for Information" might charge you for "information retrieval" and the cost of your execution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_%281985_film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_%281985_film%29)
- Erwin 12y agoOnly 8% of the prisoners in US are in private facilities according to DoJ: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p13.pdf http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p13.pdf -- where is your source for the claim that every prison is a "profit center" ?
- stefantalpalaru 12y agoHow many of them have to use overpriced banking and telephony services because some monopoly needs to make a profit?
- awor 12y agoAs well as the commissary, which is often operated by a private company. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/magazine/what-a-tv-show-can-teach-us-about-capitalism.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&hpw http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/magazine/what-a-tv-show-ca...
- Ntrails 12y agoThe wages paid to prisoners for their (required) labour means someone somewhere is saving money/making a profit. How that interacts with the costs of keeping them etc I don't have any feeling for
- AcerbicZero 12y agoIf we're going to use medical metaphors for our disaster of a justice system, how about we just admit our prisons are a secondary infection?