CRM 2306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Private Prison
2 Dec 2015
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Prison population under 2. 3 million in u. s. A set of bureaucratic, political, and economic interests that encourage increased spending on imprisonment, regardless of actual need . Suggest why there is rapid increase in prison rates; so they can make money off of it. People blame the mass incarceration on the rockefeller drug law; blame it on nelson r. Promoting increase prison population and buildings to provide jobs, state contract=wages. By 2010 1 in 13 prisoners were held for profit. War on drugs = massive penalty law, huge flux in imprisonment. Prison has become first resort response for too many social issues direct at poor, minorities, unemployed, homeless, and people of colour. They don"t make problems disappear they make people disappear. Give the illusion problems are being solved. Society is being destroyed in the name of profit. Even though publically run prisons are not the best there is still some accountability. Private prison has a bottom line to create profit.
