Judge who sold juveniles to jails gets 28 yrs

[Brownshoe]

(09-06-2015, 09:32 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: So private jails are bad because of one corrupt judge and one corrupt jail?  

The issue with jails is that when they are ran by the public they must have Unionized workforce.   Then they have limitations on who can bid on other services.    This drives the prices up.  

bot sure how it's done elsewhere but here they charge you daily for bed, food, and clothing.   Not to mention how Aramark over charges for "luxury" items which the county gets their cut plus gets paid by Aramek for the proviledge to sell.   Plus they take a daily user fee out of the cantine accounts of the prisoners.

Not to say private wouldn't do some of these things but its easier to write tjings like this into the bidding process when contracting for services.

Privatizing prisons is a horrible idea. Most of the time the staff is under trained and underpaid. Because the staff is underpaid they are more likely to get bribed into doing "work" for the inmates. It also cost just as much if not more than just leaving it public. If the state doesn't fill the private prisons up the private prisons can sue the state for millions of dollars. That just incentivizes the court system to send more people to jail, and for a longer period. Which causes overpopulation, and that in itself causes a LOT of problems.

The only bidding limitations that there is (and it's for EVERY state run facility), is that state employees can't bid giving the services. If it does drive up the price then it's very minimal. Anyone for privatization of prisons don't have all the facts, because only a fool would accept it.