Community Chat

[KittyLouSoutenu]

From everything I've read, yes, our prison system is a for profit corporation.

And it is inhabited by and large with the poor.

Flame away, I don't care.

[dooBdoo]

On 2/22/2015 tansy said:

On 2/22/2015 Free2be said:

The prison system is a national disgrace. As long as it continues to profit investors, it won't change in any dramatic way.

so it is a privatized prison? Ai yi.

According to this article the Willacy County Correctional Center is a privately-owned prison:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/inmates-to-be-transfered-after-riot-at-texas-prison.html?_r=0

[terrier3]

On 2/22/2015 dooBdoo said:

On 2/22/2015 tansy said:

On 2/22/2015 Free2be said:

The prison system is a national disgrace. As long as it continues to profit investors, it won't change in any dramatic way.

so it is a privatized prison? Ai yi.

According to this article the Willacy County Correctional Center is a privately-owned prison:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/inmates-to-be-transfered-after-riot-at-texas-prison.html?_r=0

wow...what a surprise...NOT!

From the article -

The private prison, about 200 miles south of San Antonio, once operated as a “tent city,” or immigration detention facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In 2011, it removed all of its detainees after reports of abuse, and a month later it reopened as a Criminal Alien Requirement prison.

[chessylady]

What some people don't know is that the U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, it's a big business. Some people won't like this but victimless crimes (drug possession, paid adult consenting s-x)should not be a cause for jail. People imprisoned for minor crimes learn how to be criminals in jail. They also have less opportunity for jobs with a criminal record.

[KittyLouSoutenu]

People who have money do not go go prison for minor crimes.

But poor people do.

[terrier3]

On 2/22/2015 chessylady said: What some people don't know is that the U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, it's a big business. Some people won't like this but victimless crimes (drug possession, paid adult consenting s-x)should not be a cause for jail. People imprisoned for minor crimes learn how to be criminals in jail. They also have less opportunity for jobs with a criminal record.

Anther source of income for cities - incarcerating people for unpaid parking tickets....or unpaid library fines.

[dooBdoo]

On 2/22/2015 chessylady said: What some people don't know is that the U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, it's a big business. Some people won't like this but victimless crimes (drug possession, paid adult consenting s-x)should not be a cause for jail. People imprisoned for minor crimes learn how to be criminals in jail. They also have less opportunity for jobs with a criminal record.

I agree with you, chessylady. And what you say, as you know, has little to do with opinion and a lot to do with facts.

[dooBdoo]

On 2/22/2015 KittyLouSoutenu said:

People who have money do not go go prison for minor crimes.

But poor people do.

The prison system in the USA has become housing for the poor and the sick. It's a disaster.

[tansy]

It take zero imagination to figure out that a private prison needs bodies to make money.

[KittyLouSoutenu]

On 2/22/2015 dooBdoo said:

On 2/22/2015 KittyLouSoutenu said:

People who have money do not go go prison for minor crimes.

But poor people do.

The prison system in the USA has become housing for the poor and the sick. It's a disaster.

Yes, it is. It's horrible for those who do not belong there. It's a national disgrace.