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Lynda Phoenix's avatar

If we have to pay companies to imprison people, then we have too many prisoners. There should be no large profit margin that incentives arrests and incarceration. Profits just encourage crowded cells and inferior food. Put money into education, rehabs and mental health clinics instead of prisons. The private companies don't want that as they are profit driven not humanity driven. Thank you for your emphasis on this matter.

Marie Riverton's avatar

"If we have to pay companies to imprison people, then we have too many prisoners." Absolutely. The for-profit prison system has created an industry dependent on false confessions, long terms for petty and drug crimes linked to poverty, and inhumane conditions

Kiwiwriter47's avatar

If you're in an American jail, you should have rights. We are neither Nazi Germany nor Stalin's Russia.

Period.

That's all I got.

Rainer's avatar

Oh my God, that's the most terrifying thing I've read in a long time. The atrocities some people are capable of. Shocking. Civilization, just a phrase now.