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Re:More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat... by rwmj on Monday April 08, 2019 @03:47PM (#19608420)
The principal agent problem - higher recidivism rates cost society indirectly over the long term, but jails make more money in the here and now.
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Re:More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat... by wefarrell on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:49PM (#19608873)
Why not provide a financial incentive to reduce recidivism? Is that not currently the case?
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Re:More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat... by dragonwriter on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:53PM (#19608904)
> Why not provide a financial incentive to reduce recidivism? Is that not currently the case?

Because then prison officials would have incentives to aid ex-prisoners in avoiding being identified as perpetrators of later crimes.

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Re:More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat... by andrewla on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:49PM (#19608869)
Are you under the impression that the prisons mentioned in the article are privately run? That is incorrect, all three are run by the municipality.

Only something like 10% of prisons in the US are privately operated.

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Re:More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat... by nyolfen on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:02PM (#19609002)
municipalities are also very concerned with costs and revenue. around here many sheriffs make running their jail at the lowest cost to the county as possible their major point of electability. revenue from the usurious rates the video call services charge is in fact a major reason they’re implemented.
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Re:More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat... by sitkack on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:27PM (#19608700)
> jails make more money

Society should profit from jails in that they have higher quality citizens.

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Re:More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat... by sitkack on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:16PM (#19610773)
I think people are taking this wrong, at least I hope so!
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