• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Any government that can financially profit from its prisoners also has an incentive to imprison more of its population.

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      10 hours ago

      Well, the government isn’t profiting from it. Its the people running the government who are invested in private prison companies are personally profiting from it. Along with their golf buddies running said companies.

      Privately run prisons as a for profit business is a crime against humanity.

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        6 hours ago

        The government would have got a payday when they sold off the prisons in the first place.

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          5 hours ago

          Perhaps. But I think many of the private prisons are either built from the ground up by the corporations, or the buildings are still owned by the government, but the companies are paid to operate them for the government.