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Originally Posted by Willravel
Private prisons don't allow maximum-security prisoners, death row prisoners, female prisoners, juveniles or prisoners with serious mental health or medical conditions, and they're by far the most expensive, so they seem less expensive but are actually just shifting part of the cost to public facilities. (I'll find a link for this when I can, the information is from a friend of the family that retired from the Cal prison system a few years back). They're hiding the true cost of for-profit prisons, in other words.
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You need to have another talk with your family friend. This is from the CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) web site-
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* CCA manages approximately 75,000 inmates including males, females, and juveniles at all security levels, in more than 60 facilities under contract for management in 19 states and the District of Columbia.
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Company site here
I'll concede I'm unaware of any death row inmates being housed privately but the rest certainly are- Max, females, juvies, mentally ill... you name it the private companies will happily scoop them up for a price.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Not only that, but non-union private prisons more often have issues of abuse, neglect, and such, because there's less oversight and less training. Those costs, like the ones above, are hidden but eventually do find their way back to society.
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Agree
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Originally Posted by Willravel
The main problem with California's prisons system, though, is judicial. Mandatory minimums, the failed war on drugs, excessive jailing for non-violent crimes, and prosecutors wanting to build a strong conviction rate instead of pursuing justice all lend themselves to a broken and overcrowded system. That's the main reason I'm fighting so hard for the legalization of marijuana, as it would remove a huge burden on the state's budget for our prisons.
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Agree
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Anyone else find this graph alarming?
