Quote (thesnipa @ May 22 2020 11:39am)
That's a moral quandary. Do I support regulating private business or banning it? I tend to lean to banning as regulation will be hard and also against my general code. Why not instead use an already regulated system when we have empty prisons and blocks? Not an easy choice but I lean that way.
but like I'm saying, privatization would still exist in public prisons. And that's far, far more widespread. Its something like 12% of prisons are private, but 100% of public prisons use private contractors, no?
its not like its something that can be fixed by state control of every level of the industry. Besides the varied specialties required in food service / entertainment / cleaning / maintenance / construction / etc, prisons are run at the state level and you can't have 50 states running that much industry. So what's the real potential improvement here? If the only difference is in cutting any slack between private prisons that aren't up to the regulatory standards of public prisons, then bringing private prisons up to regulation would be the same effect as using public-only prisons. Except, private prisons can do it cheaper and without the transition cost.