Sure, but I was focused on costs. In the US prisons are privatized. I wouldn’t be surprised if the private company running the prison charged for more healthcare than what they actually provide. Or if they charged the state a much higher amount than their actual cost. Prison privatization opens things up to all kinds of shenannigans.
Over 90% of incarcerated people are not in private prisons. They’re a problem for sure, but it isn’t every or even most prisons that are private. The problems with incarceration in the US can’t simply be blamed on private greed, they are primarily an outgrowth and continuation of slavery perpetuated by state governments and the federal government.
The homes they get won’t be the best homes either. And the services they get out of prison probably won’t be stellar either. I think it would be cheaper to mandate prison reform than attempting to provide all these services a la cart via disjointed organizations.
Of course, private prisons complicate that immensely by having counter goals to what prisons should be and what prisoners need to succeed outside the institution. I’d love to see them become institutions of healing and education, though. I’d love my tax dollars to go to that.
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Sure, but I was focused on costs. In the US prisons are privatized. I wouldn’t be surprised if the private company running the prison charged for more healthcare than what they actually provide. Or if they charged the state a much higher amount than their actual cost. Prison privatization opens things up to all kinds of shenannigans.
Also worth noting that all the big banks in the US finance private prisons… which creates incentives to fill the prisons. So good idea for USians to boycott the listed banks.
Over 90% of incarcerated people are not in private prisons. They’re a problem for sure, but it isn’t every or even most prisons that are private. The problems with incarceration in the US can’t simply be blamed on private greed, they are primarily an outgrowth and continuation of slavery perpetuated by state governments and the federal government.
Just a nitpick - wanting slave labour can absolutely be blamed on greed.
I agree, but the primary beneficiary of modern incarceration is the state, not private interests.
You won’t hear me disagreeing :P
The homes they get won’t be the best homes either. And the services they get out of prison probably won’t be stellar either. I think it would be cheaper to mandate prison reform than attempting to provide all these services a la cart via disjointed organizations.
Of course, private prisons complicate that immensely by having counter goals to what prisons should be and what prisoners need to succeed outside the institution. I’d love to see them become institutions of healing and education, though. I’d love my tax dollars to go to that.