Aren't you concerned that we'll all eventually end up in jail if someone's turning a profit off of it? Incarceration is the #1 industry by dollar-volume in Colorado. Surpassed agriculture and tourism a few years back. If the USCoC sees an opportunity to make a buck, they'll have no compunction about lobbying until there are as many people behind bars as is economically feasible. You really ready for Orwell's 1984?
No, but to answer your question about turning a profit off incarceration.
If it saves me as a taxpayer, I have no problem whatsoever.
Prisons don't pass the laws or do prisons pass sentences to put people into their facilities. They are the end of the line, housing the garbage that was processed out of society.
Also, private entities have to answer to the state at some point.
Now if the court systems were privatized, you might be onto something.
You said -- "Aren't you concerned that we'll all eventually end up in jail if someone's turning a profit off of it? Incarceration is the #1 industry by dollar-volume in Colorado. Surpassed agriculture and tourism a few years back. If the USCoC sees an opportunity to make a buck, they'll have no compunction about lobbying until there are as many people behind bars as is economically feasible. You really ready for Orwell's 1984?"
Yep, that's what I was saying about the tendency to "criminalize everything". Pretty soon, it's going to be so that you have a quarter of the entire population in prison on stupid stuff -- all the time.
Yeah..., a growth industry for sure. What a lot of people get put in prison for is just stupid. Let's make it for people who are a real danger to society and who are a real threat. And then -- be prepared to pay the bill long term. Just don't make it to be a "growth industry" and lock up a quarter of the entire population in the United States. That's just plain stupid.
Regards,
Star Traveler