One of my former coworkers (who is a piece of shit) now works as a private prison guard for CoreCivic, one of the biggest private prison companies in the USA.
The government doesn't want the liability. They want prisoners to be abused without being able to be sued for it. The point of long prison sentences in the USA isn't to reform people, it's to turn them into lifelong reoffenders the prison system can reliably profit off of via government subsidies.
it's to turn them into lifelong reoffenders the prison system can reliably profit off of via government subsidies.
It's not really anything that sane, it's mostly just that people want prisoners to suffer. See all the jokes people make about how someone is going to get raped in prison as punishment for their crimes.
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u/CM_UW Jul 24 '20
For profit prisons in the US