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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by grasshopperpurp on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:16AM (#15248227)
While private prisons account for a relatively small percentage of total prisons in America, they're a multi-billion dollar industry, and they lobby for laws that affect all prison populations. So, in that sense, we do have a highly privatized prison system.
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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by logfromblammo on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:25AM (#15248316)
And it is highly privatized in the sense that the amount of privatization in that sector should probably be zero. When incarceration is a burden rather than a business, incentives exist to prevent crime and reduce recidivism. Otherwise, there are incentives to invent crimes that did not previously exist and turn ex-convicts into "repeat customers".
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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by grasshopperpurp on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:35AM (#15248408)
And it is highly privatized in the sense that the amount of privatization in that sector should probably be zero.

I could only agree more if you removed probably.

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