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« on: May 14, 2012, 06:14:28 PM »
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Read more at http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html
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« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2012, 07:28:50 PM »
Undecided on the issue.
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« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2012, 07:55:49 PM »
Which Mitt?
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« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2012, 09:09:58 PM »
The high prison population was the impetus for the move to contracting prisons, not the other way around.   What the arrangement seems to do is to make there be more of an incentive for communities to have prisons. What's going on here can't really be called "private" because you are just moving the prison operation from the state level to the sheriffs, and the money being made is solely a matter of skimming the top off state funds.
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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2012, 09:50:44 PM »
Horrible idea. Remember Cash for Kids?
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« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2012, 01:30:12 AM »
As the idiots say: Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time. This is America, everyone gets what they deserve.
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« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2012, 01:56:06 AM »
For-profit? Who picks up the tab?
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« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2012, 04:19:25 AM »
Does it really need spelling out why that is an awful, awful system?
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« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2012, 05:15:09 AM »
There are a few things the government shouldn't privatize under any circumstances: law enforcement, the military, environmental protection agencies and the prison system.
But I agree this system is not fully privatized, but it still gives the wrong incentives.
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« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2012, 10:04:05 AM »
Is this a throwback to slavery? That's all I have to ask about this.
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« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2012, 12:08:52 PM »
Horrible idea.

There are certain things that I don't support privatizing, including law enforcement and corrections. Basically what politicus said.
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« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2012, 12:44:01 AM »
Well at least we're second from the bottom, though that's still not good numbers.
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« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2012, 02:58:48 AM »
The city I attend college in may beg to differ with the claim that Louisiana is the "prison capital"

I'm not saying we are the prison capital, I'm just saying that Huntsville has 9 prisons and Texas's Death Row is a 5 minute walk from class.
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