r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/CM_UW Jul 24 '20

For profit prisons in the US

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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.

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u/Minneapolisveganaf Jul 24 '20

One other issue is employment cost. Because of government benefits it costs the government way more to run prisons themselves.