Posted on 08/18/2016 8:44:07 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons: Report The Justice Department is reportedly planning to stop using private prisons.
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We are inheritors of the struggles and experiments Britain went through before and after we departed the Empire with how to deal with a large criminal sub-class. They tried execution by hanging on a fairly mass scale, indentured “transportation” to remote wild colonies, floggings, humiliation and sometimes death dealt out by the public in a pillory, caning with a birch rod. The list is almost endless. Finally, they and we landed on incarceration and “reform” as the humane method. Pity it doesn’t work any better than the “inhumane” methods. I will tell you this ... Saudi Arabia and Singapore use rods, nooses, beheading swords, and canes and both places are almost crime free.
I agree. It has not been a good idea.
Just passing on what was told to me 20+ years ago.
Actually, the meaning is even deeper than that.
This means that the LEFT cannot abide the “public sector” to provide a better prison setting than the government.
Obama has his mind on erasing all public sector authority in the area of law enforcement. Thus, this includes their attempt to FEDERALIZE all police units. Which really means, they’re going to try to neuter as many police units as they can .. so their constituents believe they can run wild and not be held accountable .. and even if they do get caught, the FEDS will just put them in a prison whereby they can continue their lifestyle.
Can’t abide a prison where people have classes; standards of cleanliness; proper dress; and are encouraged to change .. NOT continue their lifestyle that got them into prison in the first place.
And .. I’m betting one of the main reasons for the public sector prisons is to allow ministries into the prison. This is a big issue .. because today .. only ISLAM is allowed to be taught.
There’s a price that comes with wanting to be the good guys. We have a legal system built around the idea that it’s better to let the guilty go free than imprison the innocent. If idealism was free of cost everybody would do it.
...and public shaming used to work well before getting into the criminal justice system.
This is want happens when you fail to ‘donate’ to the Clinton Foundation!
Get real. That isn’t going to happen and you know it.
We’re going to need all the beds we can get for the crackdown on illegals that’s going to be happening in about a year.
Already happening. He'll go nuts with pardons of "his people" after the election.
First time I’ve ever seen a mask with nostril holes that big.
“for profit” was my point. I’m not against private businesses making a profit, no matter what business they are in. Better than a government bureaucracy that ends up costing the Taxpayers more.
The only business the federal government should be in is military defense.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
EXACTLY Cyber...
There will be the usual batch of pardons on his way out. And some of them will be in federal prisons. But to claim as you have that he is going to pardon everyone is just ridiculous hyperbole.
ANY of the major decisions 0dunga makes ‘last minute’ before he leaves office are NOT BENEFICIAL TO LAW AND ORDER, OR AMERICA IN GENERAL.
Not everyone. Just blacks, muslims, communists, gays, sworn democrats, etc. You think he'd pardon a violator of NFA of 34 or GCA of 68? Never. Christians released that wouldn't bake a cake or sign a gay marriage certificate? White power federal inmate? Never. Black commie? Sure....free as a bird 19 JAN 17. We'll see.
Yes, you said everyone would be pardoned. Per your post:
“Just in time for Obama to pardon all federal criminals on 19 JAN 2017. “
This is the kind of foolish hyperbole which is supposedly the province of liberals.
Good! We should never privatize any function that should not be expanded. We need to reduce K st lobby and payouts to crooked politicians so as to create laws for more prisons. We need to enforce existing laws but not create incentives for more prisons so that CEOS and shareholders can make more money.
It is like privatizing traffic law enforcement with speed and red light cameras. It only incentivizes them to bend the laws with camera placement to make more money at public expense and does nothing for public safety..
I don’t disagree with everything you say, but as a white anglo saxon Methodist I feel more like a victim of the bigotted aetheist Commie elites who have infiltrated our government and have oddly been able to exclude us from the Supreme Court.
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