re: So XI Joe is banning private businesses

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They're used as the scapegoat for high incarceration rates instead of looking at the culture(s) that breed criminality.

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So Biden and democrats are going to start holding blacks accountable and fix their culture? Come on man this is just way to have an excuse for letting more criminals run free.

Private prison and cartel lobbying is probably 90% or more of the reason that weed isn’t legal. They lobby hard to keep it illegal to keep those incarcerations up.

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So, the politicians are to blame for your issues with private prisons?

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Sure. One way to remove their behavior from the equation is to abolish private prisons.

Not that difficult.

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Not for prisons

You're incredibly stupid

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nice insightful reply.

are you suggesting there is no money laundering in federal prison systems, no warden appointments based on secret handshakes, and other fraudulent activity?

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end private prisons

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With just a slight spelling change and 2 more years Biden will 'end private pensions.'

Ever since Clinton's 1st term the Dems have been salivating at the prospect of the govt going after the huge amount of money held in pension funds.

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You don't see a problem with having a profit incentive to keep as many people incarcerated as possible?

The prison industrial complex acts as a lobbying influence to keep more people in prison

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A profit incentive to give people longer sentences and keep them in prison longer is a problem. That assumes the judge handing down the sentence is getting paid for that and he knows which prison a person is going to serve their sentence, which may be the case, I don't know.

As far as how many are incarcerated, look around, there is no shortage of criminal activity. It isn't like murder, rape, and armed robbery are non-existent and the system is sending people to prison for jaywalking. The need for these prisons is still there.

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nd a rip off to the tax payers. These private institutions don't contribute to the greater good of society. They detract from it.

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They wouldn't exist if government could learn how to run their agencies and departments efficiently. Private sector does damn near everything cheaper and more efficiently than the government because there's actually accountability in operations and spending. Government doesn't care about efficiency because its other people's money they're spending.

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So be damned increased costs and other issues associated with operating government prisons?

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You think that we're getting some great discount using private prisons?

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They wouldn't exist if government could learn how to run their agencies and departments efficiently. Private sector does damn near everything cheaper and more efficiently than the government because there's actually accountability in operations and spending. Government doesn't care about efficiency because its other people's money they're spending.

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I don't believe there is any evidence that private prisons operate more efficiently or come at some huge cost savings to the tax payers. If their lobbying increases incarceration to any degree the cost for both private and public prisons naturally goes up.

They don't have much of an incentive to since their only competition is the government

All they have to do is stay at about the same cost

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You think that we're getting some great discount using private prisons?

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9% of the prison population is housed in private prisons, so no, I do not...

However, the increased efficiency with which they operate certainly saves money when compared to government run facilities...

It seems you are jousting at windmills on this one... Some kind of contrived boogeyman to hang your hat on... People have asked you direct questions to engage in discussion on it but you seem unable to have a rational discussion concerning this...

Lobbying of all types is a major issue in this country... the prison lobby is probably amongst the least we should be concerned with at this point...

You are also dismissing the impacts this move would have on detention at the border as well...