Report: Private prison companies boost incarceration rates for profit

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Rotties4Ever, Mar 11, 2012.

  1. What I see here is not a private business running completely independent from the government. What I see is private industry and government being intertwined, with the government sanctioning certain private businesses and that private business in turn lobbying for more government intervention, in the form of stricter laws. This is a good example for making an argument against things that exist in the government right now, but not against anarchism or the free market.
     

  2. the government isnt asking them to do it, they're approaching the government telling them that they will lower the cost to the state, and all they have to do in turn is keep the prisons at 90% capacity. its mutual just like all things in capitalism.
     
  3. #23 TheJourney, Mar 15, 2012
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    Of course they are. Just like the financial institutions want to be intertwined with the government. It naturally follows that certain private entities will take advantage of the situation when the government gets involved with, and therefore plays favorites with, the private sector. If the government has no power to be in any way involved with the private sector, the private sector cannot possibly take advantage of such things, because they wouldn't exist.
     

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