[sinsofsolarempirefan]

99 years for robbery? Is the private prison system providing kickbacks to judges and contributions to campaigns for politicians to appear tough on crime? It isn’t healthy to have a justice system with a commercial motive for keeping convicts locked up for as long as possible and not rehabilitate them.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Kidnapping.

[bamahead]

Is the private prison system providing kickbacks to judges and contributions to campaigns for politicians to appear tough on crime?

Actually, yes - they are:

4 Industries Getting Rich Off the Drug War

According to a report from the Justice Policy Institute, lobbyists for the private prison industry have pushed “three strikes” and “truth-in-sentencing” laws across the country.