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b_b  ·  4948 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Richard Branson: Time to end the war on drugs
I wish someone would explain the private prison system to me. We arrest the criminals, and then prosecute them, with government agencies. Why does law enforcement all of a sudden become entrepreneurial after conviction?

The incentives are perverse and the opportunity for corruption so blatant that it boggles the mind to even think that this is legal. Remember the case of the family court judge in Pennsylvania who was throwing kids in jail for months and years infractions like getting in a fight at school? That's what happens when prison is an industry.