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Originally Posted by Nebe
Oh snap. More on slavery.
For profit prisons that are independently owned. That's true American slavery right there and a big reason why the war on drugs is such a sham.
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They are not truly "independently" owned. They are government contractors. They are paid by government. They, in effect, are government subsidiaries handling government "property." They neither produce nor sell the "property." They rent their own property to house government "property." They are government warehouses contracted by private entities.
This is not conservative free market. The for profit prisons cannot make arrests or hold trials or exact punishments other than what the government prescribes. They are not a private police force. They are a government concoction in order to reduce government expenditure. The use of the term profit is, in a what if sense, being used just as it can be used by government prisons using prisoners to produce various items such as licenses which can be sold at higher prices to the rest of us. This is a market at the behest and control of government. Though the contractors can compete for the contracts, the government has no competitors. This is not conservative free market capitalism. This is government controlled market. In a constitutional system, people cannot be considered property sold to the highest (or lowest in this case) bidder. This tends more toward the Orwellian form--in which direction progressivism takes us.