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Soooo, where's the badge cam footage?Originally Posted by Helena
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Soooo, where's the badge cam footage?
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Private prisons play a part in the over criminalization of America, but the desire to subsidize cops, judges, lawyers, prosecutors and others in the system is the main culprit. They financially prey on the population
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If they play a part it's a nominal one but I'm skeptical. There doesn't appear to be any evidence that this is true. The proportion of inmates in private prisons has actually declined and states with a relatively large number of private prisons do not show the increase in prison population you'd expect if this were true.
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The main culprit is people committing crimes. There is no desire to subsidize cops, judges lawyers, prosecutors or others - unless it's by the people committing the crimes.
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Mister D (05-07-2020),MisterVeritis (05-09-2020),Perianne (05-07-2020)
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Europeans have long marveled at the criminal subcultures in the US and the peculiar American tendency to glamorize them. I'm not sure what exactly happened or when but there came along this "mass incarceration" narrative that completely ignores the actual rate of crime.
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The public wants the laws to protect society.
The legislature enacts the laws.
SCOTUS said that due process required that the accused was entitled to counsel - they must be paid.
Then they were costing too much.
Prisons cost a lot.
The lawyers doing criminal defense work are largely over-worked and underpaid.
The judges are slammed with criminal drug cases.
If we let everybody out and had no criminal justice system, they'd be crying 'Where's the lawyers, judges, prosecutors and prisons - we need them'
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
Peter1469 (05-07-2020)
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If I was on the jury I wouldn't give the drunk driver a tinkers dime.
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I believe it is an issue in certain states:
https://www.axios.com/private-prison...9d5ac2883.html
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The only issue the cited article presents is inadequate security. I'm not sure if that's accurate or not but the actual stats contradict the idea that private prisons drive "mass incarceration". I'm not sure what it is but prison myths have a powerful attraction to certain types of people. They just can't let them go.
Last edited by Mister D; 05-09-2020 at 03:47 PM.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
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Here is an interesting article: https://www.sentencingproject.org/pu...ivate-prisons/
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