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To: Wonder Warthog

Wardens have no power to sentence people or dictate which prison they go to. They have no profit inventive to maximize prisoners. Maybe kickbacks from some contractors but each one is a tiny percentage of the whole pie that private prisons would get so it is far less likely.

It all goes through judges and so far the only judges CONVICTED of this have been all bribed by private prisons. Look up Luzerne and Lake Erie prisons bribing judges as soon as privatization was legal. I’m traveling and do not have the bandwidth to find the links now.


62 posted on 08/21/2018 8:15:45 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: varyouga
"Wardens have no power to sentence people or dictate which prison they go to. They have no profit inventive to maximize prisoners. Maybe kickbacks from some contractors but each one is a tiny percentage of the whole pie that private prisons would get so it is far less likely."

I repeat....similar corruption has been found in many places in government-run institutions. Different incentives may apply...the corruption is still the same.

"It all goes through judges and so far the only judges CONVICTED of this have been all bribed by private prisons.

Sorry. Not buying it. "Privatized" prisons are a relatively very new phenomenon in the penal system world. Corrupt judges have been found and removed long before the first privatized prison was even a gleam in an evil capitalist's eye.

"Look up Luzerne and Lake Erie prisons bribing judges as soon as privatization was legal.

I repeat.....anecdotal data. Sample size miniscule. Proves nothing.

64 posted on 08/21/2018 9:42:18 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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