Report: Private prison companies boost incarceration rates for profit

I think America contains 25% of the worlds prison population

 

yet we have only 5% of the worlds population.

 

Yeah. I read a very good excerpt in Tom Woods book: Rollback, about our prison system and incarceration rate, and the drug war....very good read if your interested in purchasing it..

 

I have half a hunch, well okay, more than half, that these for profit prisons are also pushing the FBI into using entrapment to coerce people into becoming would be terrorists...


Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned | World news | guardian.co.uk


FBI faces entrapment questions over Rezwan Ferdaus bomb plot arrest | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

Here's another article with video about the private prison industry:

The Profitability Of The Private Prison System | WTF Finance

 

Already knew this, but yea it's fucked up. Shows how insane our "judicial" system is. It's things like this that make me wonder, though. I mean, this, and many other similar things, are well known fact to me. They seem as if they are common knowledge. And yet, how few people actually know about this sort of stuff, in reality? If they did know, would they really care?

 

United States of Prison - YouTube

 

I think the reasons for this are two fold. One is because of our out dated drug laws, and two a lot of other country's just kill you if you are a criminal. I think it is Thailand where they will execute you for drug possession (maybe its Singapore?)

 

Interesting facts, but that guys a total douche.

It's funny he'll sit there and bitch and moan about how drug criminalization is to blame, but then he's so anti-Ron Paul. It's like cutting your hand off because you got a splinter on your finger.

 

look how efficient the free market is. lets just eliminate federal and state prisons and replace them with the free market for profit alternative...

 

You realize these private for profit prisons are imprisoning people on charges of violating GOVERNMENT laws, right? Therefore to compare it to the free market is...well, completely nonsensical.

 

lol. here we go another "anarcho-capitalist." you're like a starburst a solid and juicy, a contradiction. two things that are the opposite of each other.

 

Herp derp U'r noreal anarchist because u don't support state intervention in the market, derp.

 

lol, i only support that in any form of a capitalist society... its necessary so the people wont be exploited their entire lives... im an anarchist at heart but anarchy will never happen in america... im being a realist... the state exists to defend property. property doesnt exist in anarchy...