Samantha Bee makes the powerful case that these are breeding grounds for appalling abuses and should be abolished. Furthermore, because of the profit motive driving them, people are kept there longer and treated terribly, just so that the corporations that own them can make more money. She goes further and says that ICE should also be shut down because it is part of the problem.
Mano Singham
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Yep. I’ve been making this case for years now. The use of for-profit, private prisons is one of the reasons why I call the justice system criminal.
There are som good cases for a free marxet and competition : private prisons is not ono.
George Bernard Shaw The Doctor’s Dilemma
That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity.