Prisons are Big Business - Prison Industrial Complex (PIC)

[vantexan]

I've felt this way for years ... nothing new.

I am a Libertarian ... Fiscal Conservative, Social Liberal.

Libertarians be trippin'.

 

[Sportello]

who left you in charge of the definition?

Not my definition. Google result.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

The prison reform movement is changing how we think of criminal justice, but corporations still have their hands in profiting off of new reforms. One of the best ways to end the prison industrial complex is to keep big business out of it!

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Does it change your position if Trump is in favor of correcting this as well as reducing sentence lengths for drug related crimes?

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Does it change your position if Trump is in favor of correcting this as well as reducing sentence lengths for drug related crimes?

I saw an interview on the news and the restructuring of drug related sentences is picking up momentum as a bipartisan legislative effort.
The new AG nominee is not as progressive in his views in this area.
Hopefully he will not change Trump’s mind if this gets passed.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Criminal justice reform bill passed by Senate in rare bipartisan victory
First Step Act, a landmark bill which would reduce drug crime sentences, saw support from both progressives and law-and-order conservatives and the Senate passed the Trump backed bill today 87-12 to remove some of the racist based minimum sentencing laws.

The bill now goes to the House for approval before going to Trump to sign into law.

 

[Dr.Brownz]

Angela Davis is credited with coming up with the term “Prison Industrial Complex” (PIC). It means that prisons are big business because everything related to prisons like food, prison employees, surveillance, and construction have a cost.
Most prisons and jails are going to buildings, food, uniforms and most anything is provided by a non-Government entity and these costs have to be paid for by the prison population.

The U.S. prison population began to skyrocket in the 1970s with President Nixon’s “war on drugs.” and Corporations understood this was a unique opportunity to make money off of prisons themselves and cheap prison slave labor. Prisoners make military gear, uniforms, car parts, jeans, and even Victoria’s Secret lingerie - and are paid as little as 25 CENTS an hour.

Prisons are an industry, just like restaurants or hotels. This causes corporations and even government to have other motives. Corporations and Governments are making money off imprisoning people, that makes the criminal justice system susceptible to corruption.

The prison reform movement is changing how we think of criminal justice, but corporations still have their hands in profiting off of new reforms. One of the best ways to end the prison industrial complex is to keep big business out of it!

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Yeah the war on drugs was a bad idea and it has put a bunch of people in prison needlessly, that is the only bit of truth in this post.

The rest is backwards logic. All of those industry's happened when people demanded that we not just throw prisoners in a hole and let them rot.

Who gives a if prisoners are paid low? They likely raped or killed someone bro. Why shouldn't they have to work to pay for resources THEY are consuming? Prison is supposed to be their chance to reform themselves. If not then they can go to the gas chambers.

What are you proposing? That mom and pop shops start supplying the local prisons?

 

[Old Man Jingles]

What are you proposing? That mom and pop shops start supplying the local prisons?

This is a straw man argument!
I don't respond to poorly positioned and/or illogical arguments.

For instance, I don't respond to @Turdferguson arguments ... he is a blithering idiot that can't compose a grammatically correct sentence although he has a very extensive vocabulary.
Unfortunately he doesn't know the meaning of most of the words in his vocabulary.

 

[Turdferguson]

This is a straw man argument!
I don't respond to poorly positioned and/or illogical arguments.

You just did. Stop lying