Poll Should private owned prisons be looked at as unconstitutional?

[SeaSnake]

I know the US isnt the only country with private prisons but the US has the highest amount of prisoners compared to other countries. And while proson is supposed to be punishment how did we get to a point where prisons can be run by companies for profit? Its simple American greed for a cheap labor force that you can refresh relatively easily without rehabilitation.

How do we stop this shit? Is it simply becoming aware and trying to boycott something? Do we get out an vote when we know lobbyists and Senators will still cater to each other?

I didnt know what section to post this in feel free to move if need be.

 

[BDP™️]

Private prison system takes advantage of the caveat in the 13th Amendment that allows slavery: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

IMO private prisons exist because of that...

 

[Chicity]

Absolutely

 

[SeaSnake]

Private prison system takes advantage of the caveat in the 13th Amendment that allows slavery: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

IMO private prisons exist because of that...

I peeped that too. Pretty much saying we still gonna lock you up

 

[DOS_patos]

You should a did a whole thing on the prison complex.....I wanted to do a while ago and forgot.

But the shit runs deep.

That's one of the reasons I'm mad at my people. The truly guilty ones help feed their pockets and sometimes bring innocents down with them.

 

[Mooney]

EVERY thing this country does is based off profit!
your social security # another prime example!

 

[Mooney]

I know the US isnt the only country with private prisons but the US has the highest amount of prisoners compared to other countries. And while proson is supposed to be punishment how did we get to a point where prisons can be run by companies for profit? Its simple American greed for a cheap labor force that you can refresh relatively easily without rehabilitation.

How do we stop this shit? Is it simply becoming aware and trying to boycott something? Do we get out an vote when we know lobbyists and Senators will still cater to each other?

I didnt know what section to post this in feel free to move if need be.

Who is bold enough to shake the cage? A multi-million dollar generated business..kind of reminds me of how the goodwills and salvation army are multi-million corps..why do you think they are legalizing cannibus...MONEY..

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Hell fucking yea ...private prisons: hotels ....u build a hotel w intentions of the hotel being booked to capacity at all times ... same mentality w this shit and the niggas building damn sure don’t want their kins in it

 

[SeaSnake]

Shit is cruel but usual

 

[BRIAN B.]

Most private prisons (if not all) have contracts w/ the state to keep the prisons at a certain capacity (like 90% full for example).

if not, the prison sues the state

sumn like this

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quotas_n_3953483.html

After three violent inmates escaped from an Arizona private prison in July 2010, prompting a two-week, multi-state manhunt, state corrections officials demanded improvements and stopped sending new inmates to what they called a “dysfunctional” 3,300-bed facility. Less than a year later, the company that runs the prison, Management & Training Corp., threatened to sue the state. A line in their contract guaranteed that the prison would remain 97 percent full. They argued they had lost nearly $10 million from the reduced inmate population. State officials renegotiated the contract, but ended up paying $3 million for empty beds as the company continued to address problems, according to state documents and local news accounts. Far from the exception, Arizona’s contractually obligated promise to fill prison beds is a common provision in a majority of America’s private prison contracts, according to a public records analysis released today by the advocacy group In the Public Interest. The group reviewed more than 60 contracts between private prison companies and state and local governments across the country, and found language mentioning quotas for prisoners in nearly two-thirds of those analyzed.