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Not really. Locking people up usually costs /quite/ a bit of money.

• toomuchtodo 12y ago
  Comment you replied to was most likely referring to private prisons: https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons > Private prison companies, however, essentially admit that their business model depends on locking up more and more people. For example, in a 2010 Annual Report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) stated: “The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by . . . leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices . . . .” As incarceration rates skyrocket, the private prison industry expands at exponential rates, holding ever more people in its prisons and jails, and generating massive profits.
  • baddox 12y ago
    And it's also true, though perhaps to a less consequential extent, of public prisons. You still have prison employees and management drawing salaries and construction companies building public prisons, after all.
  • tlrobinson 12y ago
    Right, except in the first case the state receives revenue from marijuana taxation, and in the second case the state pays private prisons taxpayer money...
• peteretep 12y ago
  You better believe _someone_ is getting rich from it
• jakejake 12y ago
  Its true that locking people up costs taxpayer money. But there are people of influence who have positioned themselves to control and receive that money.