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It's not just private prisons, it's the correctional officer unions too. They benefit greatly from large prison populations.
by WDCDev 11y ago
It's not just private prisons, it's the correctional officer unions too. They benefit greatly from large prison populations.
- arethuza 11y agoI found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_Officers_Association http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_O... So they lobby to increase prison terms and to "enforce current drug laws". I suppose they should have the right to do that, but it still seems a bit odd to me!
- zyx321 11y ago>enforce current drug laws That reads to me like it could mean "outlaw medical marijuana."
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoYes, they do have a right to do that. NAMBLA also has that same right. I also have the right to call them both a cancer to society.
- maxerickson 11y agoThere are about 1/2 million correctional officers in the US: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/correctional-officers.htm http://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/correctional-offic... So they might be able to have quite some impact by lobbying and voting as a block, but they are not a big enough body to swing votes against a meaningful majority. (your link states that union has ~31,000 members, California had about 17.5 million registered voters in the Nov 2014 election)