From: pomparofurpo [furpo]
Date: 5-Nov-2009 13:44

For profit prisons must go! Private prisons pay their guards 8 or 9 dollars an hour and still expect them to be "Qualified & Professional" and not abuse their power. Most any person that has complete authority over others will abuse it, ever hear of the Stanford Experiment?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

A few weeks ago the state of Hawaii removed some 160 female prisoners from a private Kentucky lock-up. The 8 dollar an hour rednecks were raping all their women.

If states want to save some cash they should stop the war on drugs. Wasting jail cell`s on non-violent drug users is absurd.

From: gargoyle1
Date: 5-Nov-2009 13:52

I don't like the idea of private companies running the prisons, or police, or anything like that. A for profit company will probably not save money for the state and is even more susceptible to corruption by outside influence. Not a good idea. Think RoboCop.

From: proudpedophile [sex b4 8, or it's 2 L8]
Date: 5-Nov-2009 14:27

Arizona is going bankrupt and they're thinking about paying private companies to run their prisons? All of those beaners must have driven everybody in Arizona insane, because only a crazy person would think that private prisons are a good idea.

From: other [unclassified]
Date: 5-Nov-2009 14:42

aggressive business campaigns will take serious cooperation. cannot let down the stockholders.

From: vicmasterblower [don't mean glass, guys]
Date: 5-Nov-2009 15:01

At first glance, I thought privatizing might be good. You guys make salient points against it, so I will revise my impulse.

On the other hand, why don't they just shoot the 'death rowsers' and make room for the lifers? And yeah, legalize drugs.

From: sharkman69 [Me]
Date: 5-Nov-2009 16:32

I read this story and thought "Oh wow, maybe Daredevil can finally get a job?"

From: other [unclassified]
Date: 5-Nov-2009 17:43

more have died from drug laws than ever could have died from drugs. just that this way is legal and usually not the doper.

From: skorch [Skorch]
Date: 5-Nov-2009 19:01

I'm against this too...want to save money on prisons?...just rip out all the excercise & sports equipment, get rid of the tv's & cable, & put the prisons in the middle of the desert where escape probably means death anyway...install smaller, more efficient cages.

From: killallhumans
Date: 5-Nov-2009 19:36

Okay, I'll take care of each of the death row inmates for 10 bucks a pop. Although, the state has to reimburse me for the backhoe and ammunition.

From: mrpeabody [peabody]
Date: 5-Nov-2009 20:57

I dont' know much about prison life never having been there.
But i saw a good documentary on the Canadian military prison.
The prison is run military style. You get out of your bunk every day for inspection. Shoes shined, ect. You line up in military fashion for meals. You do everything in military fashion. You earn merits or demerits based on your performance. You dress correctly as per regulations. You act according to regulations. If you don't, its a demerit.
None of this dressing like fools, gang shit. It is not allowed period.
It works very well. You follow the rules.
They're return rate is very very low and discipline is the rule. No exceptions.
Now, i have to say they dno't have a lot of violent offenders, such as death row, but if more mainstream prisons were run in the same fashion, it might make medium to light offenders straighten themselves out.
I'm not sure how it works in Levenworth... If that is still the US military prison, but i'll bet the same type of procedures are followed.

From: cruelty [Because Life Isn't Fair.]
Date: 6-Nov-2009 06:38



Judge them on the spot, problem solved.

From: other [unclassified]
Date: 6-Nov-2009 07:07

Judges will recieve their finders fee, comission for every new customer. A few exposed already, the new 'way'.

From: other [unclassified]
Date: 8-Nov-2009 15:11

With the amazing volume of people getting locked up for most anything lately, I wonder if there are offshoot enterprises. I would do 'cell-sitting' for 200K a year, maybe even less, to my family or bank account. I'm sure there are plenty of high end takers. All the unemployed can find plenty of work. Rates would depend on the kind of lockup I'd have to endure. Incidents put upon me would be chargeable to the buyer of time. Just like a babysitting agency, I could start Cell-Sitters Inc.

From: other [unclassified]
Date: 8-Nov-2009 17:29

these institutions are like public schools, getting a commission based on attendance. I wonder if they'll give a cut of it to walk-in volunteers...If you're real down and out, hard up for the money?