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In reply to the discussion: 'Privatize' is doublespeak for 'Looting'. [View all]staggerleem
(469 posts)40. Ask yourself this question:
"What motivation does a for-profit prison have to rehabilitate their prisoners, so they won't just be jailed again once they are released?"
The obvious answer is: NONE! in fact, recidivism (which government-run prisons seek to avoid) actually HELPS a private prison's bottom line. Prisons-for-profit essentially mean that the state has completely given up on any possibility that any person who violates any law can ever be rehabilitated, and that the prison system is simply about keeping the "bad apples" separated from the "good citizens" - FOREVER!
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Excellent post. That should be the start of a new thread. If you post it as a new thread,
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#52
Righto. If you see "reform", "strengthen", "reinvest in" lock up the silver. "Healthy Poverty" is
appalachiablue
Jan 2015
#22
You can BET they're gonna try to "improve" Social Security under Hillary.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jan 2015
#49
I'm on Social Security, and that is one reason that I will not vote for Hillary.
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#53
senior moment -- what was the term for hiring political supporters, before the civil service act?
unblock
Jan 2015
#10
Yep, Tammany Hall which lasted into the 20th c., with 1930s Fiorello LaGuardia & others. Thought
appalachiablue
Jan 2015
#56
patronage was what i was thinking of. piratizing gets around the civil service laws
unblock
Jan 2015
#30
It's also double speak for "zero regulations, accountability, oversight, or ethics."
Initech
Jan 2015
#14