Private Prison Complex receives terrible news.

[The Grand Nudger]

Not exactly doing it for the right reasons (at least going by the public statement), but way to go!

If a mustache twirling villain tied a young girl to the tracks and through his incompetence managed to not only fail to kill the girl but also stopped the train before it went over a break in the tracks around the next bend....I'd take it and thank said villain for his service.  



@abaris, yeah..there's still a long way to go...and it's true that some would lose their livelihoods...but so did slave traders and their suppliers (up to and including shackle makers, slave freight tansport ship builders, the sugar industry took a hell of a hit as the oil of it;s day and the initiator and largest consumer of slave products...etc) when we stopped that shit. Both are in the business of body farms...the most I can muster is half-assed empathy for their plight in vacuum. Regardless of that, I know it's going to be difficult to get rid of for-profit prisons, they have..after all...worked for decades to deeply entrench themselves in our laws, in our government, and in our communities.

Had they stayed out of that I;d have no issue with them...but they just can;t help themselves....when they hand copy over to bought politicians that creates a law designed to reduce their bottom line and increase their profits by criminalizing something or reducing the standards and quality of incarceration then it's gone right over the cliff. Ever wonder who it was that funded the push for mandatory minimums, or increased sentencing for minor offenses, or relaxed standards on population density - the cramming of convicts into little boxes? When they indebt and exploit a local community (via tax breaks and labor) in shitty jobs that are dangerous precisely because of their profit minded operating principles, then the fact that they employ people is..itself, a smokescreen for their exploitation of people on both sides of the bars... and needs to end.