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Originally Posted by Populace
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I think its funny they fail to point out prisons actually end up costing most money then they bring in.
So for all that 'cheap labor'... It must not be cheap enough. But eh, who cares about pesky facts when trying to act like some thing is what it isn't..
People who actually live in the USA, can tell you first hand why there is so many people in prison... It's mainly because we have so many people here who THINK prison is a joke and don't care about going there because they get free health care, food, a roof over their heads, and they can STILL make money inside.
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Government owned and operated prisons cost more than they bring in, but more and more prisons are now owned and ran by private companies and they are hugely profitable.
Part of why we have so many prisoners is because those who make money from the prisons realize that incarceration is good thing for them so they lobby for tougher sentencing on crimes. Those laws are easy sells for politicians who are eager to embrace them.
More than that, though, is that the prisons do littler to actually rehabilitate a person. I read that if a person spends 24 months or more in prison there is an 80% chance they will end up back in prison at some point. These people end up mentally fucked up and have Post Incarceration Syndrome so the deck is stacked against them when they get out.
Sure, if a person does some terrible crime I don't care if they ever get out, but if someone makes a mistake, commits a crime and goes to jail for a few years I would hope they could get out, get a job and make something of their life, but the system is not set up to work that way.
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