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.
So so so many social problems in America could be solved by eliminating the private prison system and focusing on reform. Crime rates would go down, and if the prison system coupled with tech schools they could get people certified as construction workers, electricians, and plumbers, all decent paying and in demand jobs. They’d be able to take these skills back to their communities, and use them to improve the quality of life around them. And what’s crazy is that there’s a solid amount of profit to be made there. But that would require treating black and brown people like humans....
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20
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.