Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Government is the entity filling the prisons

Ann Althouse picks up on Hillary's tirade against private prisons.
From the transcript: I’m glad that we’re ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system. You shouldn’t have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.
Ann writes,
Government prosecutes criminals and obtains convictions and prison sentences. If government uses privately run prisons, it must pay these private businesses to house its prisoners. The entity filling the prison therefore has an economic incentive against putting more people in prison. The private business — the one with the "profit motivation" — has no power to create more prisoners. I can see opposing private prisons for other reasons, but Hillary's justification made no sense to me other than a random expression of disgust for business.

...anyone who begins with economics and reasons from there will understand that private prisons are a way for government to save money.
Read more here.

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