honest question: what do you mean by "we do it for its own sake"?
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because we think mass incarceration is good and right we are happy to spend big on it, like medieval cities and their cathedrals
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Plus it totally overlooks the role of prison guard and police unions in lobbying for stiffer sentences.
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there is of course the *public* prison industry as well standing in the way of meaningful reform
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They aren't helping.
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Yes, big case of missing the forest for the trees. Could entirely remove the private prison industry and very little would change
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@radleybalko it's a bit of both: if we're gonna be wretched might as well turn a buckThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It's not that people "believe" pvt prisons are "behind" mass incarceration, it's that they have $$$ motivation to keep ppl in jail.
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Cold, dark blood at the root of private prison supporters.
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