The idea of private sector for profit prisons is good. The execution of the business model has been bad.
Maybe they should get bonuses or something when their incarceration systems produce low recidivism rates. As it stands now, seems like both private or public prison systems would want a high recidivism rate, if prisoners are considers units. I think maybe prisons are allowed to be so brutal because they want prisoners to become brutalized and broken if they aren’t already, so they have a harder time adjusting when their sentence is completed and will commit more crime.
I don’t know, it’s a hard one. Private or public, it shouldn’t be a country club. But letting rampant rape and other brutalizing go on isn’t right either and would only seem to ensure they exit broken with higher recidivism potential.
Freegards
The success of any idea is measured in it’s end results.
Make locking people up profitable, and people will be locked up. Whoda thunk it?