The article on the Justice Department ending private prisons shed some new light on why private prisons need to be shut down. Not only are the private prisons attempting to keep inmates in for their own financial gain, but private prisons are also struggling to maintain safety for inmates. Private prisons are not able to compete with federal Bureau run prisons because those run by the Bureau provide better living conditions and safety. In most cases the private prisons are looking to make a profit. Because of this many inmates suffer the expenses. The federal Bureau spent $639 million on private prisons in 2014. Federal run prisons cost almost the same amount. The Justice Department is looking at that money and attempting to place it towards programs that benefit inmates unlike private prisons. Since private prisons are not meeting the standards of education and benefits that a normal prison run by the federal Bureau is then there is no point in maintaining them. -Bulls003
I like how you said there is no point in maintaining the private prisons because they have no benefits, or opportunities for the inmates to fit back into society again. The inmates are being released out into the real world, then they commit the same crime, which they can be a danger and threat to the citizens effected by the crime. Their back to the private prison in this viscous cycle of money. -RW003
In my opinion, all the prisons need to follow the same regulations and fall under specific guidelines set by the Bureau of Prisons. I think every prison should basically be the same across the board and be held to that standard by the same governing body. The fact that some of these private prisons have shown that they arent as safe is plenty of reason to shut them down. Housing offenders shouldn't be a capitalist venture. It's too easy for the people who run the show to decide they're going to offer lesser quality food or provisions because it's going to save them money. I understand that closing private prisons will probably have a negative effects on employees and people who live in those communities, but to me it isn't right to be turning a profit on people who are locked up. It does nothing to help these people and try keep them out of prison in the future. RustyPete003
After reading this article I agree that private prisons are not really necessary. The article states that they are not safe or effective. "They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources. They do not save on costs". However, the United States has the highest number of imprisoned people. On average four prisons are built each month, and we still don't have enough space for criminals. It stated several times in the article that the private prisons are not safe. I think safety is very important not only for the inmates, but the guards and the rest of the staff as well. -CHI003
I think it is ridiculous how we treat our correctional officers. These people our putting their lives on the line to help these prisoners get help, and what are these private prison owners doing? Trying to get them to come back so they can make more money. Seems like a dangerous and endless cycle to me. I agree, doesn’t seem like they are necessary. – Nosaints003
Definitely a step in the right direction, even though there may be some problems with doing so, like the article said, some communities rely on these prisons for revenue, but every decision that is made has pros and cons. Private prisons just feel so shaky, a lot of the riots that happened because of horrible food or lack thereof probably wouldn’t have happened if: 1 they would have put more money towards the prisoners’ way of life and: 2 they probably would have never happened if they did not have these prisons so under staffed. The prisoner to officer ratio that we talked about in class in quite shocking. I do not think anyone should have to perform under those kind of circumstances. I just hope this transition away from private prisons is a smooth and well thought out process that will better benefit those prisoners that have suffered for this countries wrong doings. – Nosaints003
I agree with you, some towns were built around these new prisons. taking them away could truly hit communities for the worst. I think much planing should go into reduction of the prisons. GRUNT003
After reading this article and looking back to the discussion help in class comparing the prison and military industrial complexes I am relieved that the federal government is moving away from using private contractors to be in charge of penal institutions. I am not against private business; but when any private company profits from a dysfunction of society it could turn the goal from correcting or limiting that dysfunction to wanting it to occur more, since more dysfunction equals more profit. I do not think society should place any profit incentive on jailing people. I think the corrections portion of the criminal justice system should try to fix and rehabilitate the people who had done wrong so they would be less likely to keep coming back to prison and be a productive member of society. Private prisons are not immoral because they do not work on measures to reduce recidivism, there is just no capitalist motivation for them to do so. The security deficiencies discussed in the article, the cell phones and mysterious deaths, also show that private prisons are not as easy to enforce by the government and have less of an incentive to enforce the standards for guard and prisoner safety. Private prisons may save on cost per prisoner per sentence, but they could be more costly if the prisoner is not rehabilitated before release and has to be incarcerated a second or third time. CoolGuy003
I agree. It's immoral to turn a profit off these people's misfortunes and mistakes. The point of corrections is to correct the person's behavior and way of thinking. These prisons do nothing in the way of helping people correct their ways. RustyPete003
I agree with what this web page has to say about private prisons and how they are less safe and less effective at providing services then the prisons run by the government. In most private prisons the staff is extremely under trained and under staffed as well. That makes things unsafe for the prisoners and staff. They also do not offer any sort of rehabilitations for these prisoners to take advantage of. Maybe the prisoners made one bad mistake and just messed up, he or she needs to be led in a better direction with help not just thrown back on the streets to do the same crime again. I think reducing the private prisons is a good thing, and in the mean time since this is something that will not happen over night, start helping the staff be better trained and bring new programs into the prisons to help rehabilitate the prisoners before releasing them. GRUNT003
I do not believe in private prison for many reasons. The first reason is they are there to make money and not help rehabilitate the incarcerated individual. These private prison lack the amount of programs that state prisons have. State prisons have programs to help get their GED and food sanitation classes. These programs are there to help the individual when they get out and not pursue the life of crime again. Secondly, these private prisons are not cost effective and have major security issues. These prison are run to make money, therefore they do not want to send their officers to training. This doesn’t make the officer better and through time forget some of the important training that they were taught at the corrections academy. As I have read from another video some of these contracts that the private prisons have is their facilities have to be 90% full. If they are o 90 % full the government still has to pay for the empty beds. max003
I agree with all of your points against having private prisons. The number one goal of a private prison is making money. With prison population being as high as it is the United States can not afford to have this be their primary goal. We need private prisons to be geared towards rehabilitation. I also agree that private prisons cost more than federal Bureau prisons. Even though federal Bureau prisons cost less they are still able to maintain a cleaner and safer prison environment. All in all I believe that private prisons should be phased out. -Bulls003
I can agree with you on some points. Private prisons are just some ways for the correction center to make money for no reason. Prison population is high enough but I don't make the rules or laws. With the world that we live in today rather someone was going to a federal prison or a private prison. Money will always be the number one issue in the correctional system. GoodVibes003
I say 50/50 on this article. Private prisons are only around because they make money off of these prisoners while the public prisoners are getting no short of money thrown there way because they can't afford there staff. Why are private prisoners even around to begin with so that there prisoners can just be coming back for the same way they where in there in the first place. In the article where it states"The problems at private facilities were hardly a secret, and Yates said Justice Department and Bureau of Prisons officials had been talking for months about discontinuing their use." To me this is kind of what public prisons are like also but the only thing they have worse is financial issues. People who are incarcerated are most likely to end up back in these private prisons because there are some prisons that keep secrets in the walls to protect there own buts and try to not release anything on the outside. It's like almost like The Shawshank Redemption but different time periods obviously. I think that private prisons are just another way for criminals to go back so that they do not have to face the society today when they are just going end up back in the prison anyways. Another statement that was an eye opener where it states "They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs." I mean can a public prison either well maybe but they can provide so little also. Maybe down the road private prisons will maybe step up there game and put there prison to use once and for all. GoodVibes003
It's about time they considered the negative aspects of what private prisons costs the state and what effects it has on the inmates. These private prisons are taking advantage of the state by collecting money from them for incarcerating criminals with poor prison conditions.The article mentioned that by the beginning of May 2017, there will be less than 14,200 inmates rather than more than 22,000 inmates in the private prisons. In my opinion the best thing for the correctional system is to close all the private prisons and require every inmate to be a public prison in order to receive rehabilitation. -RW003
The article on the Justice Department ending private prisons shed some new light on why private prisons need to be shut down. Not only are the private prisons attempting to keep inmates in for their own financial gain, but private prisons are also struggling to maintain safety for inmates. Private prisons are not able to compete with federal Bureau run prisons because those run by the Bureau provide better living conditions and safety. In most cases the private prisons are looking to make a profit. Because of this many inmates suffer the expenses. The federal Bureau spent $639 million on private prisons in 2014. Federal run prisons cost almost the same amount. The Justice Department is looking at that money and attempting to place it towards programs that benefit inmates unlike private prisons. Since private prisons are not meeting the standards of education and benefits that a normal prison run by the federal Bureau is then there is no point in maintaining them.
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I like how you said there is no point in maintaining the private prisons because they have no benefits, or opportunities for the inmates to fit back into society again. The inmates are being released out into the real world, then they commit the same crime, which they can be a danger and threat to the citizens effected by the crime. Their back to the private prison in this viscous cycle of money. -RW003
DeleteIn my opinion, all the prisons need to follow the same regulations and fall under specific guidelines set by the Bureau of Prisons. I think every prison should basically be the same across the board and be held to that standard by the same governing body. The fact that some of these private prisons have shown that they arent as safe is plenty of reason to shut them down. Housing offenders shouldn't be a capitalist venture. It's too easy for the people who run the show to decide they're going to offer lesser quality food or provisions because it's going to save them money. I understand that closing private prisons will probably have a negative effects on employees and people who live in those communities, but to me it isn't right to be turning a profit on people who are locked up. It does nothing to help these people and try keep them out of prison in the future. RustyPete003
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this article I agree that private prisons are not really necessary. The article states that they are not safe or effective. "They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources. They do not save on costs". However, the United States has the highest number of imprisoned people. On average four prisons are built each month, and we still don't have enough space for criminals. It stated several times in the article that the private prisons are not safe. I think safety is very important not only for the inmates, but the guards and the rest of the staff as well. -CHI003
ReplyDeleteI think it is ridiculous how we treat our correctional officers. These people our putting their lives on the line to help these prisoners get help, and what are these private prison owners doing? Trying to get them to come back so they can make more money. Seems like a dangerous and endless cycle to me. I agree, doesn’t seem like they are necessary.
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Definitely a step in the right direction, even though there may be some problems with doing so, like the article said, some communities rely on these prisons for revenue, but every decision that is made has pros and cons. Private prisons just feel so shaky, a lot of the riots that happened because of horrible food or lack thereof probably wouldn’t have happened if: 1 they would have put more money towards the prisoners’ way of life and: 2 they probably would have never happened if they did not have these prisons so under staffed. The prisoner to officer ratio that we talked about in class in quite shocking. I do not think anyone should have to perform under those kind of circumstances. I just hope this transition away from private prisons is a smooth and well thought out process that will better benefit those prisoners that have suffered for this countries wrong doings. – Nosaints003
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, some towns were built around these new prisons. taking them away could truly hit communities for the worst. I think much planing should go into reduction of the prisons.
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After reading this article and looking back to the discussion help in class comparing the prison and military industrial complexes I am relieved that the federal government is moving away from using private contractors to be in charge of penal institutions. I am not against private business; but when any private company profits from a dysfunction of society it could turn the goal from correcting or limiting that dysfunction to wanting it to occur more, since more dysfunction equals more profit. I do not think society should place any profit incentive on jailing people. I think the corrections portion of the criminal justice system should try to fix and rehabilitate the people who had done wrong so they would be less likely to keep coming back to prison and be a productive member of society. Private prisons are not immoral because they do not work on measures to reduce recidivism, there is just no capitalist motivation for them to do so. The security deficiencies discussed in the article, the cell phones and mysterious deaths, also show that private prisons are not as easy to enforce by the government and have less of an incentive to enforce the standards for guard and prisoner safety. Private prisons may save on cost per prisoner per sentence, but they could be more costly if the prisoner is not rehabilitated before release and has to be incarcerated a second or third time. CoolGuy003
ReplyDeleteI agree. It's immoral to turn a profit off these people's misfortunes and mistakes. The point of corrections is to correct the person's behavior and way of thinking. These prisons do nothing in the way of helping people correct their ways. RustyPete003
DeleteI agree with what this web page has to say about private prisons and how they are less safe and less effective at providing services then the prisons run by the government. In most private prisons the staff is extremely under trained and under staffed as well. That makes things unsafe for the prisoners and staff. They also do not offer any sort of rehabilitations for these prisoners to take advantage of. Maybe the prisoners made one bad mistake and just messed up, he or she needs to be led in a better direction with help not just thrown back on the streets to do the same crime again. I think reducing the private prisons is a good thing, and in the mean time since this is something that will not happen over night, start helping the staff be better trained and bring new programs into the prisons to help rehabilitate the prisoners before releasing them.
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I do not believe in private prison for many reasons. The first reason is they are there to make money and not help rehabilitate the incarcerated individual. These private prison lack the amount of programs that state prisons have. State prisons have programs to help get their GED and food sanitation classes. These programs are there to help the individual when they get out and not pursue the life of crime again. Secondly, these private prisons are not cost effective and have major security issues. These prison are run to make money, therefore they do not want to send their officers to training. This doesn’t make the officer better and through time forget some of the important training that they were taught at the corrections academy. As I have read from another video some of these contracts that the private prisons have is their facilities have to be 90% full. If they are o 90 % full the government still has to pay for the empty beds.
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I agree with all of your points against having private prisons. The number one goal of a private prison is making money. With prison population being as high as it is the United States can not afford to have this be their primary goal. We need private prisons to be geared towards rehabilitation. I also agree that private prisons cost more than federal Bureau prisons. Even though federal Bureau prisons cost less they are still able to maintain a cleaner and safer prison environment. All in all I believe that private prisons should be phased out. -Bulls003
DeleteI can agree with you on some points. Private prisons are just some ways for the correction center to make money for no reason. Prison population is high enough but I don't make the rules or laws. With the world that we live in today rather someone was going to a federal prison or a private prison. Money will always be the number one issue in the correctional system. GoodVibes003
DeleteI say 50/50 on this article. Private prisons are only around because they make money off of these prisoners while the public prisoners are getting no short of money thrown there way because they can't afford there staff. Why are private prisoners even around to begin with so that there prisoners can just be coming back for the same way they where in there in the first place. In the article where it states"The problems at private facilities were hardly a secret, and Yates said Justice Department and Bureau of Prisons officials had been talking for months about discontinuing their use." To me this is kind of what public prisons are like also but the only thing they have worse is financial issues. People who are incarcerated are most likely to end up back in these private prisons because there are some prisons that keep secrets in the walls to protect there own buts and try to not release anything on the outside. It's like almost like The Shawshank Redemption but different time periods obviously. I think that private prisons are just another way for criminals to go back so that they do not have to face the society today when they are just going end up back in the prison anyways. Another statement that was an eye opener where it states "They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs." I mean can a public prison either well maybe but they can provide so little also. Maybe down the road private prisons will maybe step up there game and put there prison to use once and for all. GoodVibes003
ReplyDeleteIt's about time they considered the negative aspects of what private prisons costs the state and what effects it has on the inmates. These private prisons are taking advantage of the state by collecting money from them for incarcerating criminals with poor prison conditions.The article mentioned that by the beginning of May 2017, there will be less than 14,200 inmates rather than more than 22,000 inmates in the private prisons. In my opinion the best thing for the correctional system is to close all the private prisons and require every inmate to be a public prison in order to receive rehabilitation. -RW003
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