ACLU Law suits to follow.
Mexicans get much needed employment.
California taxpayers save a bundle.
Deportation is a moot issue.
Recidivism rates plunge.
Private prisons? I thought they were illegal. If not I know a few people...
HEY!...We're supposed to get something like 1200 here in IN.
Our Rat Governor before McDaniels was send OUR prisoners out of state.
I am repelled by the notion of treating people, even convicts, as commodities. As someone pointed out, if everyone who was convicted got their max sentence, 39% of our population would be behind bars.
Let me explain. If you are going to put people in prison for a gazillion laws, that is fine. If it is so expensive that you have to build prison tent cities to house them in your State, that is also fine.
But when you so easily send people to prison, then refuse to accept that you have to pay for that, and instead treat them as if they were cattle, not human beings, that can be shipped off to be out of sight, the entire concept has gotten out of control.
First of all, the vast majority of these prisoners are "non-violent drug offenders". The logic of putting people in violent, gang-ridden, PYITA prisons for years, because "smoking marijuana might hurt them", is insane.
If just they are released from prison, most of the prisons in the United States would be more than half empty. No more overcrowding, with all its problems, and no more prison guard unions the size of the Teamsters.
Second, it is a primary responsibility of government to keep and maintain prisons. I couldn't be less comfortable if some corporate rent-a-cops replaced all the policemen in my city.
I honestly don't think CA will save any money doing this over the long run. This is a cosmetic, feel-good approach to a problem that can easily be resolved in a matter of days.
I may be the lone voice on this thread.
Corporations should not be involved at any level of our justice system. They make their profit on a per prisoner basis.
This in turn will create yet another lobby, the corporate prison lobby in this case. These corporations will lobby for unnecessary mandatory sentences to increase their income. Which hurts, not helps the cause of justice.
This creates a system just begging to be abused.
Where does one need to sign up to start a 'private prison'?
Public-Private Partnership? (It's too early to say the f-word).