@Pachyderm_In_The_Room I’m sensing an ad hominem fallacy in your response. I would ask you to ignore who happens to be the messenger, and deal strictly with the message. Is the message true or false.
@flutherother Thanks. I find Tarantino tough to take too. But the statistics cited in the piece paint a clear and ugly picture.
@ragingloli Ha!
@susanc For-profit prisons cost us taxpayers plenty, and what “savings” they deliver to taxpayers, they extract from consumers—who happen to be the same set as taxpayers. Even disregarding the horror that the for-profit prisons have an incentive to drive incarceration rates ever higher in order to drive profits higher, their fully burdened cost to We the People is higher than state and federal run prisons. Private, for-profit enterprises do not make things free.
@poisonedantidote Yes, as @Linda_Owl points out, the US incarcerates a higher percentage of its population than even the most odious dictatorships. There must be a reason.
@mazingerz88 Sometimes in chain gangs, but more often in private, for-profit industry whose owners have strong connections with elected officials. A little taste of fascism, which uses an economic model involving a merger of corporatism and state power.