Next Stop Thunderdome or One More Reason Why Free Markets Won't Save the World

SmarterThanYou said:
dude, I could start listing correctional officer misconduct at government run prisons that could turn you prematurely gray. really, trying to place this crap on privately run prisons only is off track.
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I never said anywhere that this type of thing occurred ONLY at privately run prisons. My point is that, with all the problems we currently have at our state run facilities, how does privatizing, and thereby taking control from the DOJ and giving it to some corporate CEO shielded from scrutiny and out to fill his own pockets and nothing more IMPROVE the situation?
 
Zap, here's another article (from 2005) on why California prisons are broken. Among many other issues they are talking about facilities so bad they violate inmates civil rights. I can't imagine you consider that compassionate.


HARD TIME / California's Prisons in Crisis / High price of broken prisons / Tough sentencing creates overcrowding that endangers inmates, haunts taxpayers

http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-07-...-health-care-system-flawed-prison-new-prisons
 
ZappasGuitar said:
To be sure, there are abuses taking place with ridiculous regularity at our Government run prisons, but if even this one example of guards just standing by while an inmate is beaten and stomped into unconsciousness really occurred at a privately run facility, then we should call the "experiment" a failure and go back to letting the Government run our prisons.

After all, private industry only got the opportunity to go into the prison business by claiming they could do a better job than the Government
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Zap ain't, STY....see above. Read and comprehend.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
That's an outright lie.

I have stated at least three times in this thread that that is NOT the case.
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not having read the entire thread, I was simply surmising from the first page or two that you were intimating that only privately run prisons could do this. If you have stated later that you do not believe that to be the case, then my apologies. :ILUM:
 
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