Inside a Private Prison: Blood, Suicide and Poorly Paid Guards

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A mentally ill man on suicide watch hanged himself, gang members were allowed to beat other prisoners, and those whose cries for medical attention were ignored resorted to setting fires in their cells.


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Inside a Private Prison: Blood, Suicide and Poorly Paid Guards
A trial in Mississippi provides a rare glimpse into a world where mistreatment of inmates is commonplace, at a time when the Trump administration wants to expand the use of private prisons.

 

[wickedsm]

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Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy

 

[Shogun]

If Republicans in America had any sense of the politics they pretend to support they would realize that privatization of prisons is in fundamental disagreement with their underlying philosophy of government.

From the Wealth of Nations:

According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to; three duties of great importance, indeed, but plain and intelligible to common understandings: first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it, or the duty of establishing an exact administration of justice; and thirdly, the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain; because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society

 

[wickedsm]

If Republicans in America had any sense of the politics they pretend to support they would realize that privatization of prisons is in fundamental disagreement with their underlying philosophy of government.

From the Wealth of Nations:

but you know they dont care about the philosophy of government or the stated purpose of government [greater good etc]
they care about profit for themselves and their cronies
and punishment for the" opposition" and "outsiders"

 

[Shogun]

but you know they dont care about the philosophy of government or the stated purpose of government [greater good etc]
they care about profit for themselves and their cronies

Of course they don't. They're playing the game
Seriously, though, I meant Republican voters, not politicians.

 

[wickedsm]

Of course they don't. They're playing the game
Seriously, though, I meant Republican voters, not politicians.

oh. them?
they dont care about anything other than hating someone whos not them.
actual thoughts about government and what it is or whats its supposed to do really dont enter their little mind spaces.

 

[Shogun]

oh. them?
they dont care about anything other than hating someone whos not them.
actual thoughts about government and what it is or whats its supposed to do really dont enter their little mind spaces.

Sad, but true.