I think you meant to reply to someone at the very bottom of the comment section.
Private prisons should not exist.
America’s prison system is so thoroughly fucked because of its privatization. When someone makes money based off of prison population, it should be understood that they benefit the most through high incarceration rates, long sentences, and a lack of actual rehabilitation which leads to high recidivism rates. Not to mention their profit margin depends on keeping overhead costs as bare minimum as possible leading to awful living conditions. Plus the use of prisoners as legal slave labor on loan for added profit.
Counties like the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland have shown how countries can turn a prison system that started like the US’s, with mass incarceration, long sentences, and control through solitary confinement, into a system that focuses on longer investigations, shorter sentences, and reintegration with society leading to low incarceration and recidivism rates.
I think you meant to reply to someone at the very bottom of the comment section.
Private prisons should not exist.
America’s prison system is so thoroughly fucked because of its privatization. When someone makes money based off of prison population, it should be understood that they benefit the most through high incarceration rates, long sentences, and a lack of actual rehabilitation which leads to high recidivism rates. Not to mention their profit margin depends on keeping overhead costs as bare minimum as possible leading to awful living conditions. Plus the use of prisoners as legal slave labor on loan for added profit.
Counties like the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland have shown how countries can turn a prison system that started like the US’s, with mass incarceration, long sentences, and control through solitary confinement, into a system that focuses on longer investigations, shorter sentences, and reintegration with society leading to low incarceration and recidivism rates.