Topic: CNBC right now - America's billion-dollar prison industry

cccuuunnttt !nIGga.SL0w started this discussion 15 years ago #13,184

Looks very interesting so far. CNBC has some great documentaries.

Ks !KansasxqvM joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 20 minutes later[^] [v] #236,979

I'm not sure the prison system should be allowed to make profit. :/

Seems like a major conflict of interests.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 24 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #236,982

I think we should base our prison system on Norway's.

cccuuunnttt !nIGga.SL0w (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 12 minutes later, 37 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #236,990

@236,979 (Ks !KansasxqvM)
Yeah. Have you heard of the kids for cash thing in Pennsylvania? Two judges took kickbacks from private for-profit juvenile detention centers in exchange for sentencing kids to long stays there often for very minor offenses. One kid committed suicide later (his mother talks about it here).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

Anonymous C replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 38 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #236,993

@previous (cccuuunnttt !nIGga.SL0w)
Doesn't surprise me at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Association_of_Specialty_Programs_and_Schools

Swashbuckler !!+SaaZSjSE joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 42 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #236,996

@236,990 (cccuuunnttt !nIGga.SL0w)
That is horrible! Those bastards...they are the worst of the worst.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #237,068

@236,990 (cccuuunnttt !nIGga.SL0w)
Michael Moore talks about that in Capitalism: A Love Story.

sluggy joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 37 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #237,076

Yea, this and the pharmaceutical companies are largely why drugs are still illegal.

People don't care about other people. We care only for ourselves.

Minichan