re: My first "I hate roads" Thread of 2017 (Trigger Warning: Meme Inside)

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People act like private prisons are the juries and judges that sentence criminals. If the argument is that there are too many crimes because private prisons lobby, fine. That still isn't a good argument, but it at least makes more sense.

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As shittily run as traditional prisons are, the private ones are worse. They veer between brutality and letting inmates run amuck, often in the same institution, depending on who's on duty and who's getting paid under the table. There's a private prison not far from me and it's a cesspool, run by people no better than the ones they're incarcerating.