re: #456 rwdflynavy

They would probably say that being a government employee does not immediately translate to competence…

OK, while I was responding I saw the other responses. I’ll expand my other comment.

I worked in the prison industry for a while as a state employee. I got to see some of the pleasure of private prisons. I use that as a basis.re: #460 sattv4u2

You answered your own question

No, I answered yours. The proposal is to turn it over to the private companies.

OK, let’s look at another major industry that’s got some similarities: Private Prisons. Nominally they’re under the guide of the respective state Dept of Corrections. They’re pushed as being better than public. However, when compared to equivalent state prisons - in some cases in the same states - they turn out to not be not so good.

Notionally they save money. However, they have a higher rate of escape than equivalent security prisons. There is a greater incidence of assaults on staff and on fellow inmates at private prisons. When you realize that in mixed states (states with both private and public prisons) the private prisons often have the option of refusing or returning prisons (shades of private school selectiveness) this is even more damning.

My guess about the ones right now is that they are heavily supervised by the TSA and so aren’t that much different. If the entirety except for a top level executive control is turned over to private industry I do not expect it to be a good thing.