I find for-profit prisons a perversion of the criminal justice system. If the state says that something is illegal and that doing something illegal means you will be punished through confinement, [1] then the state should take on the burden of confining you, not fob you off on a for-profit corporation interested in eking every dollar possible from your incarceration.
TL;DR: A man has to be willing to shoot his own dog, not privatize the dog-shooting to someone who sells dog food.
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[1] The idea that one might be confined so as to be rehabilitated and trained to be something other than a criminal is a quaint idea that was dropped somewhere in the 1980s.
Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws
A lawsuit against one of the largest private prison operators in the country reached class-action status this week.
The claims are not new. The certification of the class action lawsuit is what's new.
And there is also a big legal difference among people detained as punishment for a crime they have been convicted of, people detained because they are too poor to make bail on criminal charges, and people who are awaiting a civil hearing on civil charges, which is what these ICE detainees are.