Re:The Economics of the American Prison System
by VLM on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @12:29PM
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The prison industrial complex comes up once in awhile on HN.
Its hard to think of a startup topic. Mostly because prisons (including private ones) have been around so long.
Maybe a startup designed solely to imprison IP violators, or solely to hold patent violators or people who break private website terms of service or something like that.
Maybe a robot guard (or guard tower) to be teleoperated from cheap labor in India, or not operated at all, just pattern match and shoot people who look like they are violating the rules.
Something like the MOOC "movement" but dedicated to selling to private prison administrators for their prisoners?
Implementing something like "a scanner darkly" is going to happen anyway, startup or not.
Maybe a more advanced higher tech house arrest ankle bracelet system?
Maybe a startup designed solely to imprison IP violators, or solely to hold patent violators or people who break private website terms of service or something like that.
Maybe a robot guard (or guard tower) to be teleoperated from cheap labor in India, or not operated at all, just pattern match and shoot people who look like they are violating the rules.
Something like the MOOC "movement" but dedicated to selling to private prison administrators for their prisoners?
Implementing something like "a scanner darkly" is going to happen anyway, startup or not.
Maybe a more advanced higher tech house arrest ankle bracelet system?