Company plans to close private Estancia prison, lay off 200...

[GMDino]

(08-08-2017, 11:27 AM)Benton Wrote: I don't know the set up in every state, but it's not just private prisons that profit in Kentucky. There are a lot of regional jails operated by counties that handle detainees for smaller counties and inmates from state/federal institutions. It's an on again off again problem for those jails. They serve as regional jails, but the only way they can keep a facility that size going is to have X number of inmates.

I'm very much against for profit prisons, but it's not just a problem with how businesses work.

Any prison that is privately ran that is saying they have to have more prisoners or will close will get grief from me.

If state run prisons are running out of prisoners they can downsize, ship in from other states, whatever.

The core of this article and my problem is that this is a private prison and they serve as another example why we don't need these.