I have a close friend who worked in a prison. She told me what the prisons are like and how the inmates are treated. "Snitches get stitches". Those who are in protective custody, because they reported on another inmate, are in turn mistreated by the guards. Their food will sometimes be dropped on the floor and they have to eat it or go hungry. Overall, prisoner healthcare is so bad, it's rare to see anyone who has been an inmate for a long time who has all their teeth. She said they will go six months or more with a toothache, because they just won't get treated.

You have your anecdotes and she has hers, you'll have to pardon me for accepting hers as the gospel truth.

I worry about humanity in ways you could never understand!
Any system that profits off their fellow humans will fail
including the government.

That is incredibly irrational.

The Government would have NO incentive to put innocent people into prison. So why would they get rounded up? Do you imagine that the Government would allow the prison to send out teams of man-catchers who illegally arrest and enslave people? While that might make a workable B-movie plot, it's just not possible in a democracy. Also, states can write the prison labor laws, not the private prisons. So if the state says that prisoners can't be used for for-profit labor, they can't be. Your whole scenario reeks of desperation to find a reason to oppose private prisons, but there is no rational intellectual basis on which to base your objections.

You know that, because you know me so well. We've had so many long deep discussions of politics, economics and religion, right?



I see a lot of the same problems as you, just because my solutions aren't your solution doesn't make me a bad or insensitive or unknowledgeable person. You need to open your mind and stop judging people.

open my mind and stop judging...

I think you took that VERY personal.

You asked if "i care about the millions"

ask a silly question, get a silly answer.

The only way to help pay for the private prisons, other than sucking the money from taxpayers, is to run them as "for profit" work camps.

Because there are more and more laws passed every day to rob people of ordinary freedom, there will be more and more law breakers. Hence they by law will not be arresting "innocent people." They will be arresting law breakers.

When people begin to protest an oppressive corrupt government who can and will arrest anyone they want if they call them a "terrorist" or if they own a gun, or if they are thought of as a "threat to national security" or any other paranoid reason, any who are even peaceful protesters will be rounded up and thrown in prisons.

When the people of America decide that their government is corrupt it is their duty to over throw it, so says the Constitution. When the government decides that state militias are "terrorists" there will be civil war and people with guns will be rounded up.

When it becomes normal routine for your doctor to ask you if you have any guns in the house, you will know that big brother is making a list.

Can you explain to me how "I worry about humanity in ways you could never understand!" isn't a comment on my person?

Private prisons are run through taxpayer dollars. They are contracted by the Government. The prisoners aren't slaves, they aren't forced into labor, they are still protected by the law and private prisons are held to a higher standard of treatment of the inmates than public prisons.

"do you care about the millions"

Seems you wondered if i cared..

I won't leave flowers this time.

I get it, I asked a question and you get the right to smear my character.

How does me saying YOU couldn't understand ME smearing you.
Get over yourself, jesus!

That may be what appears to be going on currently, but we are talking about the future.

With more private prisons coming, who demand a quota of prisoners, there will be more people getting sentenced to serve time in the future.

With more people in prison, and less people out side working and paying taxes, there will not be enough taxes to support the prisons and to support the elderly and also the people disabled and on welfare.

So the money for the prisons will have to be made by making them into working prisons. I'm sure a lot of that money will have to be funneled back into the government to make up for the loss of the working class who are paying taxes.

There are a lot of private prisons that have already been built that are sitting empty.

The money for supporting the government has to come from somewhere. If they have more prisons, and they require inmate quotas, then more people will be sent to prison. And if those prisons are supported by tax payers on the outside, there will soon not be enough money to go around, so the government will demand taxes from the prison's who are making money from working their inmate slaves.

The prisons take on the roll of the large corporations. Cheap labor, big profits. But they will have to kick some of that money back to the government who is providing them with workers (inmates.)

Okay, so I'm not intelligent or emotionally mature to understand you. Got it.



Oh sweet irony, thy name is Lori.

I'm going to go shopping with my son and enjoy my day.

I hope you can get over yourself and ME and have a nice day too.

Don't flatter yourself, I'm having a fantastic day and you have nothing to do with it.

Privitization is one thing...not bad in principal, but H3LL if crony elements seek to capitalize on the backs of corrupt judges and politicians!

Is it just me or does that seem a little egotistical to others as well I wonder. After all, the influence of each individual affects the society as a whole.?

On "my side", no. We are from different worlds.

I am, by nature, a protector and a Class A personality.

If, I took you under wing, you could bet your life I would protect and attempt to preserve your life. Even if, it meant losing mine in the process.

What you would do "if"...doesn't matter.

You already said we can't be on the same side.
Even though we want the same freedom, to bad.