10-23-2015, 12:56 PM
(10-22-2015, 10:40 AM)Ryuko Wrote: It'd be nice if prisons were made to be self-sufficient. Y'know, where prisoners actually did supervised manual labor for the state, such as running farms, digging irrigation, mending roads, etc. But then again, requiring people to be outdoors and away from cable television seems to cause outcries of "cruel and unusual" in today's world.
You used to "pay your debt to society" in prison. Now you just sit around and wait to be somebody's prison-wife.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/how-for-profit-prisons-have-become-the-biggest-lobby-no-one-is-talking-about/
Private prisons for profit are big business. However, studies comparing cost vs. benefit of private vs. public prisons are lacking to determine which model works best.
