Re:Alaskans vote to legalize marijuana
by Mikeb85 on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @01:13PM
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Given how many prisons are in the US, that probably still qualifies as 'many'...
Re:Alaskans vote to legalize marijuana
by spacemanmatt on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @01:39PM
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I've got 8.4% (2013 U.S. DOJ statistics) via WikiPedia
if you add prison guards unions - which are formally non-profit, and that only means that they have no taxes to pay and they have nobody else to give the formal profit away, and as result they have all the money they collect to themselves - you'd get pretty much 100% of US prisons run by organizations with direct financial interests in growing the prisons in size and number.
Re:Alaskans vote to legalize marijuana
by mason240 on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @03:24PM
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By that logic, wouldn't every part of government with unions be "run by organizations with direct financial interests in growing...?"
That seems like it would be a union problem and not a prison problem.
Re:Alaskans vote to legalize marijuana
by cloudwalking on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @03:28PM
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Except in this case, peoples' freedoms are denied. Versus, say, waiting longer in line at the DMV.
yep, there is a reason why military for example aren't allowed to form a union. I hope CIA/FBI/NSA aren't allowed to have it too. And prison guards and police shouldn't be allowed to. Holders of "license for violence" shouldn't have masters other than the government hierarchy they belong to thus minimizing conflict of interests.
Citation for the "Many"?
Only about 5% of prisoners are in private prisons.