Describe the comparison between publicly funded and privately funded prisons?

Answer 1

Publicly funded prisons are supported by our tax dollars and run by individuals working directly for the state. They are entitled to the benefits of any state employee. Privately funded prisons are run by private individuals under contract to the state and are under strict controls by the state. However, they are sometimes more flexible and less effective. It's just a way of life in prison. You're in a place filled with convicted criminals. Of course you're going to team up with a gang, which in that case is your race. They protect and take care of each other. It's a sense of security, also mandatory. Nobody likes being locked up and being told what to do. You hate the authority figures that put you in there thus the correctional officer's you see every day. It will never change.

Prison's are now a way to make money. Private prisons are a business like any other. The state pay's that prison a certain amount each year to take care of that prisoner. It also takes some of the responsibility off the state. There are 23 million convicted felons in this country and it grows by the thousands each month. This is a way for people in power to make money off taxpayers. My question would be if this is a business that makes so much money then why they wouldn't have some kind of rehabilitation classes or some kind of program that teaches responsibility and success rather then throw all these people in a place of criminal education. IT MAKES MONEY. A lot of people who get out are more likely to go back in the next two years, then get a good job or go to school. Why? They are now a convicted felon with a tag on them that will not allow them to be a successful productive citizen. Every place of business now day's does a background check. If we were put in there to pay our debt to society and be rehabilitated.