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    Posted: Mar 09 2011 at 9:14am
Could someone explain the logic behind selling the institutions that incarcerate convicted lawbreakers as a way to save money? Wouldn't a privately run prison have one mission; making money? How would the state have any control over prison security and conditions? Why would a private company want to buy a prison except as a way to make money? I have a serious concern when you make the criminal justice system a for profit operation. does anyone else have a problem with this?
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Where have you been TonyB ? We have private prisons all over America,it's been that way for 20 years at least.I remember one that was built out near St. Louis right along the expressway.Private prison's is nothing new.Selling currently owned state prisons might be something new.
 
Security won't change,Wackenhut is one of the biggest supplier of CO's to prison's.Private prison industry is a major money maker.So much so that companies build prisons for that very purpose and make deals with states.I'm thinking Halliburton is one that is in the private prison business also,or at least one of it's subsidiaries.Google it and you should find all kinds of info on it.
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How about just fencing off a few square miles of wilderness or even an island in the middle of the ocean,give them some water jugs and a few crude farming tools and let them have at it.That would save the tax payers even more money.
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Originally posted by Bocephus Bocephus wrote:

How about just fencing off a few square miles of wilderness or even an island in the middle of the ocean,give them some water jugs and a few crude farming tools and let them have at it.That would save the tax payers even more money.
If you really want to punish them,send them to Middletown.LOL
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Tomahawk,
   Now that would be a cruel and unusual punishment. But if you really want to punish a Charlie Manson type, you could make him try to deal with the people in the city building about something that would truly help improve Middletown.
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Thank you all for your comments; however, none of you really answered the question I posed: does anyone have a problem with this? I wonder if Kasich will put a quota incentive system in place for communities that need money? Hey, got caught by the red light cam but Middletown hasn't met its prison quota for the month. Let just send them to jail!
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Tomahawk isn't there something in the United States Constitution that protects citizens from Cruel and unusual punishment? Other then that I agree with you LOL
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