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I doubt that there are too many people who have their head in the sand so far that they would disagree that corrections/prisons/jails is a money making endeavor.
Over the years I have had several people---including two politicians---that said to me, "Oh REW. Nobody makes money off inmates."
Such people are just either uninformed or "willfully ignorant."
This country is full of willfully ignorant people. They don't know the facts and they don't want to know the facts.
The latest is that all the Oklahoma sheriffs are whining because the state DOC wants to take all their inmates out of the country jails.
http://tinyurl.com/mhl5w4t
http://tinyurl.com/mfp5s6t
This country is in bad shape when they make money by locking up people.
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Over the years I have had several people---including two politicians---that said to me, "Oh REW. Nobody makes money off inmates."
Such people are just either uninformed or "willfully ignorant."
This country is full of willfully ignorant people. They don't know the facts and they don't want to know the facts.
The latest is that all the Oklahoma sheriffs are whining because the state DOC wants to take all their inmates out of the country jails.
http://tinyurl.com/mhl5w4t
http://tinyurl.com/mfp5s6t
This country is in bad shape when they make money by locking up people.
rewdiazepam
If there wasn't money to be made from prisoners, there would be no private, for profit prison corporations. Check this out.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime
Though I know we disagree Rew, I don't think private prisons are the problem. They are a part of it, but the problem is we have crazy people in congress who are either trying to insure their seats indefinitely or truly believe what they are doing is best for the protection of everyone.
Private prisons came to be because we incarcerate too many people. Also a privately run corporation can find ways to save money that our inept government cannot. This is not a chicken or the egg scenario. Clearly, politicians and media fed the country fear, we the people ingested it and we ran out of space in prisons so private prison corporations saw a need and filled it.
Is it right that corporations make money off of bad public policy? No. But is it their fault that we are in the situation to begin with? No it's not.
American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap.
by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple.
I am reading a really interesting book on this topic. He states.... It's incredibly easy for people who don't have money to go to jail for just about anything.
Taibbi says it's a great example of the judicial divide between the rich and poor. It's easy to think hedge fund managers can't be criminals, he says, because they're often seen as polite and refined.
I think what ends up happening is these stories get written about, but they get written without outrage, or without the right tone, and they are also not written for the right audiences. They're written for Wall Street audiences who want to find out how this lawsuit turned out. They may not want to see those people thrown in jail, they just might be interested in seeing how far the government is willing to go this week in putting white-collar offenders in jail says Taibbi as the media helps shape our criminal justice system.
"Poverty goes up; crime goes down; Prison populations doubles."
"Fraud by the rich wipes out 40% of the worlds wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail."