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Poll of the Day > Elizabeth Warren pledges to ban privatized prisons

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Mead
06/21/19 1:23:46 PM
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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/449679-warren-pledges-to-ban-private-prisons
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Zareth
06/21/19 2:08:17 PM
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Yeah, that's not going to happen. Unfortunately.
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Bugmeat
06/21/19 2:23:24 PM
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That would be great. But way too many people are making far too much money from it for them to ever let that happen.


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streamofthesky
06/28/19 3:57:38 PM
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That would be fucking amazing.

Also skeptical it could happen, but I do believe her that she'd try.
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_AdjI_
06/28/19 4:03:39 PM
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Bugmeat posted...
That would be great. But way too many people are making far too much money from it for them to ever let that happen.



Pretty much. There's just too much power tied up in the prison industry, as despicable as it is that there even is a prison industry in the first place.
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Mead
06/28/19 4:04:44 PM
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Several major banks have pulled there money out of private prison companies in the last week or so, Bank of America is the latest iirc
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joemodda
06/28/19 4:08:18 PM
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About as likely as Biden curing cancer or her winning the election
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Blighboy
06/28/19 4:16:32 PM
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My girl Pokey Warren gonna colonize them white privilege genes the fuck up.
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Taily_Po
06/28/19 4:19:24 PM
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Haven't a lot of democrats talked about doing that? And it doesn't necessarily improve things because it doesn't touch bigger issues like sentencing reform and alternative reformative treatments like rehab.
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_AdjI_
06/28/19 4:21:11 PM
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Taily_Po posted...
And it doesn't necessarily improve things because it doesn't touch bigger issues like sentencing reform and alternative reformative treatments like rehab.


It does, however, remove the financial incentive that currently exists to resist addressing those issues. As long as you've got somebody making money off of current sentencing practices and not rehabilitating criminals, you're not going to be able to change those things.
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Taily_Po
06/28/19 4:25:11 PM
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_AdjI_ posted...
Taily_Po posted...
And it doesn't necessarily improve things because it doesn't touch bigger issues like sentencing reform and alternative reformative treatments like rehab.


It does, however, remove the financial incentive that currently exists to resist addressing those issues. As long as you've got somebody making money off of current sentencing practices and not rehabilitating criminals, you're not going to be able to change those things.


...but there's still a financial incentive to not do that, considering that relying on existing methods and infrastructure is seen as being cheaper. Not to mention you still have things like unions that push back against change. And you're *always* going to have a large financial incentive to grow prisons because private contractors provide those services.
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