http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/29/the-numbers-are-in-for-profit-prisons-are-bad-for-everybody Comments On: The Numbers Are In: For-Profit Prisons Are Bad for Everybody, Including the Economies They Promised to Improve by Brendan Kiley en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Doris or
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Posted by susan12]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:24:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Proteus]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:06:45 -0800 The Stranger
I'm sure they've done everything they can to lower "fixed" costs as well. I've seen some photos of privatized prisons down south where the inmates sleep in bunk beds, maybe 20 to a room. Surely that's not a recipe for disaster.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:53:53 -0800 The Stranger
I'd tend to react that way to. But then I remember that all the wingnuts I know have this ideology that says the free market is the solution to every problem, large or small, local or national.

I wasn't too thrilled with state run liquor stores, and I can think of a lot of my favorite things that I don't want nationalized. But not the fire department. Not the police.

It really depends. You have to look at the facts on the ground and adapt a solution that works. If conditions change, adapt to that. Getting the Internet off the ground required massive state subsidy and direction, but now I'd mostly like the government to butt out of cyberspace. Until we need the governemnt.

Hedgehogs and foxes, you know.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:57:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by California Kid]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:24:18 -0800 The Stranger ""Privatization [...] places downward pressure on staffing, pay and benefits for all"

This is the secret scandal of privatization economics. This is one of the major campaigns in the ongoing capitalist class war.
Posted by treacle]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:17:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Zebes]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:16:10 -0800 The Stranger "Privatization [...] places downward pressure on staffing, pay and benefits"

This is economics 201. Given fixed costs (the building, electricity, water, sewage, etc.) and variable costs (inmate food, supplies, guard salaries)... the only way to make a profit is to reduce the variable costs... So lowering salaries to the lowest possible level is #1 on the list, well, along with lowering the quality of inmate food of course, but fuck them anyway, right?

This, of course, ensures that we have low-quality guarding going on, and it opens a huge incentive for personal corruption.

The problem with this blinkered privatization of everything... --the idea that it is some sort of financial/market panacea--... is that the quality diminishes in order to secure a profit for the owners.

If the owner isn't worried about making a profit.. then the correct resources can be allocated.

This is true for urban transit systems, and the post office, and many other things where competition doesn't make any sense at all.
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Posted by Doeis]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:11:57 -0800 The Stranger
The "Titans" of Wall Street have robbed the country of billions of dollars and yet not a single one has seen the inside of a for-profit prison as an inmate.

http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/08/pr…

But, really, as discussed in another thread, it is because poor people don't have middle-class values for ownership and hard-work. Hell. Locking them up is probably doing them a favor!
Posted by randoma]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:30:34 -0800 The Stranger http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13j…

Lets not forget that for profit prisons can and have lead to corruption at the expense of the "criminal."
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