re: #97 A Mom Anon

I strongly agree with most of what you said, but for-profit prisons are somewhat of a red herring. Only about 10% of prisoners are in for-profit prisons. In California, it is actually the prison guard union, which is shunned by all other unions, that’s the main anti-progressive force in the state in terms of law and order.

There is plenty of ways to make money off of public institutions, and while I loathe the idea of private prisons, there’s plenty wrong with the public prison system too, so much that there’s little to choose between them.