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Gus6/24/2011 5:59:21 am PDT

re: #205 iossarian

I think it would be fairly easy to construct an argument suggesting that the prison system shouldn’t be a for-profit endeavor.

Perhaps not but it would also be very easy to argue that prison abuse is not a monopoly of private prisons. Let’s have a look at Rikers Island and Attica… or perhaps the numerous super-max facilities and the notorious state facilities in Florida.