Prisons were originally built for the purpose of rehabilitation and throughout the years they have moved away from the concept of rehabilitation because it wasn't cost effective. They have severely cut educational programs and programs aimed at learning a trade and instead they
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specific set of people, namely minorities, those who have invested in the privatization of prisons need not fear losing their cheap labor because these laws have led to an overwhelming mass incarceration. Now you have overcrowded prisons run by inexperienced correctional officers
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who are largely outnumbered by inmates because we continue to overcrowd the prison system rather than sentence defendants to alternative programs, and that is going to equal a disaster waiting to happen. When you take into consideration the harsh and dehumanizing treatment these
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inmates are subjected to by some of these correctional officers and how inmates are extorted by the guards to sell the contraband that they bring in, and if you believe that the inmates are the only ones sneaking things into the prison and the guards are innocent on this one, you
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are certainly living in a fantasy world. Correctional officers have found a way to supplement their income by extorting inmates to deal drugs within the prison system because the markup in prison is almost if not 10 times what it would be on the street and the inmates have no
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even subject these inmates to physical abuse and yes it does happen and the courts are filled with lawsuits from inmates that claim abuse and violation of their civil rights by the correctional officers but that doesn't make the news because it isn't newsworthy to those that
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control the narrative of the news media. The only reason people know how bad the situation was at Parchman Prison in Mississippi was over the summer was because some of the inmates got a hold of a cellphone and they went live on Facebook to show the world the deplorable living
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conditions they are being subjected to. The prison is outdated and falling apart around them, their cells are flooded with water from the pipes leaking, there is toxic mold growing in most of the cells and let's not forget about the deceased inmate that the guards just allowed to
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Sounds like many public schools in the US. While prisoners should be treated humanely, as we have limited resources, I'm going to favor kids over crooks.
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We do not have limited resources when the prison industry is a billion dollar business. All of the contracts that prisons have with outside companies to produce whatever product they are contracted to produce and it is only costing the prison a dollar and some change per prisoner
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a day. Sounds to me like they have plenty of money to put in place programs that focus on rehabilitation and focus on cutting the recidivism rate. If you are not going to do anything to educate and teach inmates a valuable skill that will benefit them on the outside how can you
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honestly expect them to become productive members of society or do you just assume that anyone who is sentenced to prison are just throw aways and the dredges of society so why bother helping them with an education and a skill so that once they do make parole they don't have to
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