aw,hell-CNBC is talking about how to make a profit off of Prisons

[w8liftinglady]

do these people have no shame?

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Privatization and profit...the Holy Mantra of the ChristoFascist Repukes.

The first of their commandments....
If there ain't no profit involved, it ain't worth saving.

[LisaM]

2. When are people going to get that health care, public schools,

prisons, etc. should NOT be run for profit?

[dysfunctional press]

3. china did a pretty good job of it...the secret is volume, volume, volume!

the more prisoners you have, the more cheap labour you have.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Let's see...

Lots of prisons, lots of prisoners, brutal conditions, long sentences, indiscriminate use of psychiatric medications, slave labor, political prisoners, aparatchiki getting rich off the system...

Did I just describe prison conditions in the Soviet Union? No, I did not. I described the US, c.2007.

[Zodiak]

5. Let's not forget the tolerance of prison rape

Gotta keep 'em in line through fear, ya know.

[killbotfactory]

7. The US has more prisoners than China

Both in raw numbers, and per-capita.

[butterfly77]

6. They already are,...

this is where they are getting a lot of the cheap labor...

[spanone]

8. this is why 1 in every 100 in america are in prison....it's profitable

[w8liftinglady]

9. no shit

while the real criminals walk freely in Washington