Private prisons were constructed as a response to the overcrowding in federal prisons during the 1980s; many people speculate whether or not private prisons are good or bad. Critics argue that private prisons like any business are driven by profit, and prisons profit from the amount of criminals they are able to contain which gives the private prisons and their shareholders incentive to keep the prison population high and expenses low. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency estimates that over the next ten years state and federal expenditures on prisons will amount to $351 billion6. These government subsidies along with the support of private prison shareholders allow the prison industrial complex to keep their power and influence
The demand for private prisons has grown tremendously over the years. The government has relied on prison privatization to help address growing issues of overcrowding and financial stress in public prisons. However, many believe that privatizing prisons has led to and will continue to cause legal issues for our judicial system. In this paper I will discuss three potential legal issues associated with privatizing prisons. Privatization of prisons affects inmates negatively by neglecting and violating their rights.
The United States has around four percent of the entire population world’s population and yet it locks up around twenty-five percent of the entire prison population. That is in large part because the prison industry is now made up of for-profit prisons. For-profit prisons are privatized prisons where the owners get paid to keep their inmates as long as possible. Many
The private corporations do not care, and maybe they never will, for the inmates they are forcing into their facility. The use of private prisons are not the saving grace the government expected it to be; in fact it may be the devil itself. Private prisons are more relaxed with their safety and health guidelines. As a result, the inmates suffer the consequences of neglect. Private prisons are known to cut corners, and when forced to change they retaliate.
As of 2008 there was 126,249 state and federal prisoners held in a private prison, accounting for 7.8 percent of prisoners in general. So the private prisons quickly stepped up and made the prisons bigger to account for more prisoners. It is expected that private correctional operations will continue to grow and get stronger, due to a number of factors. With that being said the growth in the number of state and federal prisoners has slowed down in the past two to three years, there is still expected to be a huge increases in the number of inmates being held and with state and federal revenues down due to the recession, very few jurisdictions are constructing new prisons. Tightening the government’s budget forces them to look for other ways to make up for the
The quote from page 17 is reassuring to me. It means that no matter what mistakes I have made, I am not defined by them. I make mistakes everyday and I am just glad that there are people in the world that will be able to see past those mistakes and accept me for who I am. I think that private prisons are not a good idea.
Years later, an investigation into for-profit prisons discovered that many of them were too crowded. In other words, importing prisoners, bribing judges and inflating sentences has led to there being too many inmates to house safely. Instead of owning up to this, the corruption inherent in this industry causes prisoners to be in unsafe conditions. It's not hard to imagine what happens in an overly-crowded, improperly maintained facility; tensions flare, fights increase and germs are more easily
Private prisons have exponentially expanded throughout the U.S. in the past decades and with the expansion of a corporation there will be setbacks. The YouTube video by John Oliver he enlightens the viewers about the negatives of private prisons and the companies who operates them like GEO group and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Oliver states that in 2012, about 8.7% of inmates were held in private prisons. Oliver reiterates that GEO group and the CCA had a combined revenue of over 3 billion dollars. It’s unfathomable that some corporations that are supposed to be taking care of the inmates with healthcare and decent food are essentially profiting from inmates.
As stated here “The more money a state spends on building and running prisons, the less there is for everything else, from roads and bridges to health care and public
Bailey Smith English 102 12 March 2018 Paper 1: Position Paper Outline I. Define Issue: A. State Issue: One of the most serious problems facing the U.S is private prisons. B. What kind of Issue: This is a government and economic issue that affects U.S citizens tax dollars. II. State Position:
Some of these prisons cost more or cast the exact same as regular prisons and don't offer rehabilitation. Other prisons also have high death rates and more violence even though there's less inmates in the
After all, some repeat offenders will continually resist rehabilitation from a criminalistic-lifestyle, leaving society no recourse but separation through incarceration to incapacitate them from affecting the lives of law-abiding free citizens. Regretfully, the adage “a few bad apples spoils the bunch” does prove true regarding criminal behavior and separation from society is the only remedy. However, through privatized corrections, society benefits from creating numerous jobs that also serve a vital function for their communities. Granted that, opponents of private or corporate run prisons argue that they are for profit resulting in two distinct objections. First, a corporation has no authority to administer and oversee sentences imposed by the government.
Imagine being placed into an old run down building with thousands of men or women. A mixture of murders, rapist, drug dealers and just plain criminals, not having enough space to do anything. Welcome to prison. Prisons nationwide face many issues such as overpopulation which can lead to violence and millions of dollars being plunged in these institutions.
The prison system is a very complex industry and, believe it or not, is one of the main reasons that the incarceration rates of people continue to rise in the United States. Interestingly enough, the system that is created to punish the offenders, actually helps the prisoners learn from within the system only to return to jail when released into society because of its culture. Furthermore, the real reason for the increase in occupants is because of what is currently an epidemic in the United States. Are there any factors that shed light onto why this is? For example, does race play a factor since there are more blacks in prisons than whites?
A favorable viewing in the public conscious is a valuable resource and the prison system knows it. In this analysis, I discuss how the prison uses inmates to ensure that prisons are viewed favorably in the public conscious so that they will be maintained. In the first paragraph, I discuss prison tours and tourism and how they construct prisoners as ‘dangerous and in need of the incarceration provided’ so as to distract from the mental or physical harms the prison causes prisoners. In the second paragraph, I discuss how Quicken Loans in downtown Detroit with the help of the prison system, evicted racialized and disadvantaged people from the neighbourhoods of the civil rights movement. In my final paragraph, I draw attention to how intentional
