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samintx wrote:
It will be interesting to see the stock price of the private prisons tank.
Look for them to redirect the massive amounts of money they have toward locking in state governments. Don't be surprised when they next come up with unalterable 20-year contracts that states can't get out from under.
State officials have far fewer barriers to resist corporatists than does the US government. So they'll just work behind the scenes and before the folks in North Carolina or the like environs will know it, their tax dollars will be going to pay dividends for private corporations to house people, house them in the most despicable way.
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fauch:
There is no lobby for reform. No matter how sensible it may be, our government as presently constituted only responds to those who have their ear and that is not us, not the voter. They only hear the arguments put forth by paid lobbyists.
Much of this stems from the SCOTUS decision to allow unfettered streams of money to fund political campaigns and causes.
Watch the prison industry react with their "contributions", they're second only to the NRA in the amount the pump into the political system. Try to run for governor in a "private prison" state without those funds, even better; try to run for governor and oppose private prisons.
It's a bit of idiocracy we could have anticipated, and some did, it's idiocracy we saddled ourselves with in the name of, that holy g_d, privatization.
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fauch wrote:
We are already paying out the ass to keep these people in jail and deal with the fallout to society from that. If there are cheaper preventative methods to tackling these problems, then by all means go for it. It's not like we are saving money or bettering society this way. Lose Lose all around.
Well, we know one thing: nothing is more expensive and less effective at 'reforming criminals' than prison.
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I think what we really could use to ease the problems of imprisonment is to create a Phantom Zone.
"The inmates of the Phantom Zone reside in a ghost-like state of existence from which they can observe, but cannot interact with, the regular universe. Inmates do not age or require sustenance in the Phantom Zone"
