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Profit Guaranteed By Quotas For Private Prisons

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"A new report from In the Public Interest (ITPI) revealed last week that private prison companies are striking deals with states that contain clauses guaranteeing high prison occupancy rates. The report, "Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and 'Low-Crime Taxes' Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations," documents the contracts exchanged between private prison companies and state and local governments that either guarantee prison occupancy rates (essentially creating inmate lockup quotas) or force taxpayers to pay for empty beds if the prison population decreases due to lower crime rates or other factors (essentially creating low-crime taxes)."* The Young Turks hosts Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola break it down.


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[FONT=arial, sans-serif]Yet another injustice in our "justice system". This is [/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]disgusting[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]. These "private prisons" are a huge injustice that operates on a profit motive, that just turns out any other thing that does not guarantee justice. Using the free market to lock people up? Terrible. [/FONT]
 
Presumably, state prisons could have the empty cots. Private prisons do not want to build for thousands and then serve as overflow retention for hundreds. Essentially, they want to be first in line to house prisoners, and the state can have the empty cots. I figure they would also accept a contract not based on the number of inmates, but based on running a full facility.
 
Video @: [/FONT][/COLOR]Profit Guaranteed By Quotas For Private Prisons - YouTube

[FONT=arial, sans-serif]Yet another injustice in our "justice system". This is [/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]disgusting[/FONT][FONT=arial, sans-serif]. These "private prisons" are a huge injustice that operates on a profit motive, that just turns out any other thing that does not guarantee justice. Using the free market to lock people up? Terrible. [/FONT]

I feel that corrections and law enforcement should not be outsourced to private companies and such practices should be banned.Every company is profit motivated.Because of that fact that means a company may cut staff, may cut corners,work out deals or anything else to increase their profit margin and the same thing applies to private prisons. The only reason anyone should go to prison is because they deserve to go to prison, not because that privately ran prison worked a deal out with the state.
 
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