09-04-2015, 06:29 PM
(09-04-2015, 06:15 PM)jakefromstatefarm Wrote: I'm fine with all of that, until the point where people are being incarcerated unjustly to meet a quota.
Yeah, but that incentive can be taken away with proper planning. And if you did a flat-rate instead of a per-head, then you create an incentive to send less people to jail and shorter sentences!
But similar issues exist without private prisons. You have cops who's advancement is determined by close-rates, DA's looking to become judges or well-paid private lawyers wanting stellar conviction rates....of course budgets based on crime statistics and arrests. The idea there's no "profit" motive in govt work and that doesn't create errors and corruption is simply ridiculous.
Pretty much from the moment man created govt, man created govt corruption.
