Did you know that there is an increasing trend of corporate-owned prisons? They receive money from the government to help with prison overpopulation, and the prisoners work making money for the corporations... more than just the stereotypical "license plates" they make products for major corporations, earning them a lot of money and devaluing the worker much in the same way as the practice of using illegal immigrant workers. They make a lot of money doing so... they claim this practice is cheaper for the government than publicly-owned prisons, but it is contended that they are not. In order to keep these per-prisoner profits, they form public advocacy campaigns keeping drugs illegal and supporting longer sentences and being "tough on crime".
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Crime/BG650.cfm
have you heard about this before? where? political ideology of those who have already heard of them, and finally... thoughts?
2006-09-04 10:06:55 · 7 answers · asked by Aleksandr 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
hey I'm not saying they can't do it or anything, nor did I cite anything in the constitution, but it is a horrible conflict of interests that prisons owned by corporations making a double-profit on the products prisoners make and on housing them also advocate public policy concerning prisons. philosophically speaking, we're not supposed to make money on crime.
2006-09-04 10:22:45 · update #1
American prison work camps - maybe made in the USA will finally mean something again.
Many prisons in Texas are private as well as other states.
Some day, all Americans with credit scores less than 700 will wind up in an American concentration camp like the corporate prison. Haliburton will buld them all over the country - some Wal-Marts will become prisons as well....
2006-09-04 10:12:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
This seems an underhanded pass at advocating the legalization of drugs. NOT!
This does reduce the costs of housing prisoners to the taxpayer. And, quite frankly, the prison system (private or public) can work the prisoners for no pay, nada, zip, nothing.
They can contract them out as laborers with no compensation for the prisoner.
Think not? Very carefully read the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
2006-09-04 10:14:59 · answer #2 · answered by Albannach 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I knew about it They tried to build one in WI. The state forbids private operation of prisons there S o the state was basically forced into buying it. The prison industry has lot of profit in it despite what the states may say Inmates are a source of very cheap labor and many prisons contract with industries to supply labor and finished goods .
2006-09-04 10:30:55 · answer #3 · answered by bisquedog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American Prison Industries have made products from clothing to funiture to sheets and more. They have done this for at least 30 years. The Federal Prison system has a special department (unicor) just for this purpose of prison industry.
2006-09-04 10:42:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would love my own prison. I would personally castrate all the child molesters.
2006-09-04 10:13:09 · answer #5 · answered by Fleur de Lis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are trying to stir up controversy where there is none. Shame.
2006-09-04 11:02:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
so, what can we do about it. we also pay for criminals to be educated and they have free healthcare and dental care while they are in there.
2006-09-04 10:12:01 · answer #7 · answered by rhino_man420 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋