Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio...
by ultrarunner on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @11:04AM
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Private prisons are an awful situation, but last I’d seen they comprised a small percentage of incarcerations. While they’re part of the problem, I think they are more a symptom of the brokenness of the criminal justice system than the cause.
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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio...
by ultrarunner on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:34AM
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I found a ProPublica article with broken links to government sources that says around 8% of prisoners were housed in private prisons in 2010. A Pew Research article[0] shows that private prisons have housed between 5-8%, but in 2016 out of 2,162,400 total prisoners[1] only 128,063 of them were in private prisons[2], which is about 6%.
I wholeheartedly agree that 6% of the prison population (128,063 people!) is a situation worthwhile of positive change. But I remain skeptical that it's those damn private prisons that are ruining everything. Mostly I think it's debacles like the drug war that need real immediate attention and change before things will significantly improve.
[0]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/11/u-s-private...
[1]https://www.bjs.gov/content/keystatistics/csv/Total_correcti...
[2]https://www.criminaljusticeprograms.com/articles/private-pri... again citing the BJS.