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- 12 May 06
- 11:19 am
Every aspect of privately owned prisons should make any thinking person run screaming to the nearest privately-operated ballot box. To imagine that corruption will not be the first by-product of such an arrangement is naive at best. One cannot but wonder why, since privately-run prisons have become the norm, the incarceration rate has increased dramatically. The United States, to add yet another dubious distinction to its list, recently surpassed even the former Soviet Union and South Africa in this category, according to Bureau of Justice statistics. Of course, we know that all our politicians are honest to the bone and certainly …

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- 12 May 06
- 11:29 am
In a further thought, has any study been conducted on how much money these institutions have funnelled into various political campaigns, and what the voting record of their recipients reflects on issues of justice, such as sentence reform or legalization of non-violent or 'victimless' crimes? I'm sure it would be unduly cynical to suppose that there would be any reason for these prison operators to see any monetary advantage to themselves in 'tough on crime' stances taken by politicians, and surely none of our good pols would let their vote be influenced by any considerations these institutions may offer them . …

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