Prisons should never by a for profit industry.
Because when they are, the people who own them have a political interest in sending more people to jail, regardless of what is fair or just.
Why do we have three strike rules? So a an otherwise harmless, law abiding person caught with a joint three times get’s put in jail for a decade or two, that’s why. Because that way the for profit prison makes money off that inmate for decades.
Prisons should be run be owned and run by the government. There should be no profit motive in putting more people in jail. It ruins families. Destroys lives, and ultimately hurts everyone. After being in prison society pays the price. How does a man re-integrate into society after prison? It is not easy. A lot of them are harmed in ways they never recover, and back to prison they go. Almost like that is what the big corporations want.
Its sick and sad.
And big corporations are making fortunes at the cost of men’s lives, as well as filling their coffers on the taxpayers bill.
Like putting a veteran in jail for 10 years because of selling a single pill and then daring to head back into Kentucky to see his mother. It is sick, and it isn’t about justice. It is about lining the pockets of the owners of private prisons. Link to Story.