miketx
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It is not the prisons job, or the employees job to punish the offender. The incarcerated offenders punishment is being locked up and being forced to live under the rules of engagement of the unit he is in. The prisons job is to make sure they are safe during that time.All unions should be prevented in prisons, public or private.
Private prisons should be banned, period.
I think for-profit prison industry is a bad bad idea - to make profit off of human misery is wrong. Worse - it seems that it would encourage the creation of more prisons and more reasons to put people into prison rather than using alternative methods.
If unions encourage this - I would oppose them.
We agree on the banning of private prisons, but how in general are prisons "human misery"?
Prisons are institutions for punishment and for banishment from society either for a fixed period or for a lifetime period, the situation is if they don't want to have to endure that harsh treatment then they should think twice before committing crimes.
I see prisons a bit differently:
Protect society first and formost.
Punishment
Rehabilitation
You need rehabilitation to prevent the constant cycle of ending up back in prison. If punishment can be done without prison, then it might be more effective for certain crimes.