When private companies profit from the state imprisoning its citizens, those companies will lobby (successfully) for more business in the form of mandatory sentencing and other crime fear-mongering.<p>Just like Eisenhower warned us of the military industrial complex, we should do the same for the prison industrial complex.
Guess which industry stands to profit quite obscenely from this move. And which not-so-coincidentally donated very handsomely to his campaign:<p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/23/private-prisons-back-trump-and-could-see-big-payoffs-new-policies/98300394/" rel="nofollow">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/23/priva...</a>
Today the White House also indicated that they may enforce federal laws against recreational marijuana more heavily soon as well [1]. They <i>want</i> to incarcerate <i>more</i> people, and this is preparing for it.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/23/516945294/white-house-spokesman-predicts-more-federal-action-against-marijuana" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/23/516945294/...</a>
It looks suspiciously as if they're trying real hard to make sure Obama will not be remembered for anything positive. If they could bring Bin Laden back from the dead they just might.
> <i>In a memo made public on Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Obama policy impaired the government's ability to meet the future needs of the federal prison system.</i><p>> <i>The Obama administration said in August 2016 it planned a gradual phase-out of private prisons by letting contracts expire or by scaling them back to a level consistent with recent declines in the U.S. prison population.</i><p>Yeah, dictators need places to lock up dissidents. Trump's foreseeing incarceration growth.
Prison and putting people in jail for minor things has become huge industry. It might be time to add some competition and let prisoners chose prisons they want to go to and the prisons must be incentivized if the prisoner finds gainful employment and does not turn repeat offender after release.<p>I can totally see private prisons doing a better job of identifying normal people incarcerated incorrectly and offer them a better life than getting raped in a gruesome prison.
In this time, where populace can be moved with a tweet and a like, instantly en mass globally in micro seconds. On platforms that are all fully capable of being handed over to the care of the autistic like abilities of neural networks, many platforms already are and publicly announce this "feature" like it is the coming messiah. In this light the idea of publicly owned prisons doesn't make sense to sovereign free citizens. Prisons for profit are bad for society, rehabilitation centers are better for them