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Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Somewhere a fat sweaty man is sitting on a gauche chair with his chubby finger on the trigger of a pistol

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JB50
Feb 13, 2008

Nefarious 2.0 posted:

the scary black men that get paroled as a result of this will probably steal all your guns and rape your daughter :ohdear:

Wow racist much? Mods?

misty mountaintop
Jun 2, 2015

by Hand Knit

JB50 posted:

I was gonna say this too.

Also, oh no the poor prisoners. Stop breaking the law assholes.

I hope they keep breaking the laws and, in fact, break more laws, more frequently.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

JB50 posted:

I was gonna say this too.

Also, oh no the poor prisoners. Stop breaking the law assholes.

also what is this fuckshit mentality of 'oh they broke the law that means we can treat them however' like it's still 1200 AD or something.

they're still entitled to humane treatment ffs.

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

unpacked robinhood posted:

Why are thy plunging for us who don't follow us politics ?

it has to do with harambe

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Dogmeat posted:

But what are we supposed to do when it is the prisons that are breaking the laws?

An inversion. :v:

GORDON
Jan 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

a cloth map posted:

How can the private sector possibly run something worse than the US government?

There's no good metric for judging their effectiveness when their customers are incarcerated criminals.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

unpacked robinhood posted:

Why are thy plunging for us who don't follow us politics ?

DoJ memo says they're gonna not renew or drastically reduce the scope of all private prison contracts with the ultimate aim of eliminating them entirely because

quote:

“they simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs; and as noted in a recent report by the Department’s Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security,”


basically bc they suck in every way and aren't even cheaper really

kikkelivelho
Aug 27, 2015

nationalize everything

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

JB50 posted:

Wow racist much? Mods?

thats pretty weak

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
anyway if i were a betting man i'd be buying available puts and/or shorting those to 0

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
A picture of the current stock holders of these corporations.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

VendaGoat posted:

A picture of the current stock holders of these corporations.



lol I'ma go on StockTwits just to see people raging h.o

dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot

unpacked robinhood posted:

Why are thy plunging for us who don't follow us politics ?

remember how in ancient europe they had tax farmers, well this is kind of like that only instead of robbing people, they abduct them and the state pays to keep them in a dungeon. imagine if your name was on the jail so they had to pay you to imprison people there

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

This is extremely my poo poo op.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
I'm posting from a private prison AMA!

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
It's a disgusting practice that not only profits off of human misery but also intentionally causes more human misery for it profit off of. It is an embarrassment to our national character that we ever let the idea get off the ground in the first place.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Lawman 0 posted:

This is extremely my poo poo op.

BLARGHLE
Oct 2, 2013

But I want something good
to die for
To make it beautiful to live.
Yams Fan

Chomp8645 posted:

It's a disgusting practice that not only profits off of human misery but also intentionally causes more human misery for it profit off of. It is an embarrassment to our national character that we ever let the idea get off the ground in the first place.

Polish Avenger
Feb 13, 2007
has an invalid opinion.

Gabriel Pope posted:

On a more philosophical note, privatizing prisons creates a perverse economic incentive to keep as many people in jail as possible. There have been a couple scandals over the years where judges have got caught taking kickbacks in exchange for handing out harsher sentences to send people to private prisons. Those are just the ones that were dumb enough to be obvious about it, too, we don't know how many other cases have been influenced more subtly.

They had a direct incentive to do an awful job rehabilitating inmates: if the inmate gets released and re-offends, which they've made as likely as possible, they make more money. Not to mention that job training programs for inmates probably costs them more money, so double-gently caress that.

On top of that, they have a huge interest in lobbying for stupidly long sentences, which they can due under the guise of law, order and safety.

dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot
pretty sure america's national character will go down in history as "a republic that was captured by powerful interests almost immediately after it was founded and was used to enact great evil"

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

Dreddout posted:

I'm posting from a private prison AMA!

will they let you out before they demolish it

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

hopefully this means drad bert will be freed

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007

dookifex_maximus posted:

pretty sure america's national character will go down in history as "a republic that was captured by powerful interests almost immediately after it was founded and was used to enact great evil"

yeah but when I go to the supermarket there's literally 18 different BBQ sauces for me to choose from. In socialist Germany there's only like 3. Kinda worth it.

JB50
Feb 13, 2008

:Protip:

When a prison closes they dont free the prisoners.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

JB50 posted:

:Protip:

When a prison closes they dont free the prisoners.

This is also good. How does Obama pick who he's freeing right now tho?

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
so if the prisons aernt profitable, are they just going to let them go? or are we talking final solution?

its all nice on rice
Nov 12, 2006

Sweet, Salty Goodness.



Buglord

Nonsense posted:

This is also good. How does Obama pick who he's freeing right now tho?

He doesn't. All inmates will be conscripted into God Emperor Trump's new Legion of genetically modified, spacefaring supersoldiers to conquer Europa.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

dookifex_maximus posted:

pretty sure america's national character will go down in history as "a republic that was captured by powerful interests almost immediately after it was founded and was used to enact great evil"

i liked it when the business plot happened and congress was all LOL

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

Rutibex posted:

so if the prisons aernt profitable, are they just going to let them go? or are we talking final solution?

lol that talisman red text

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Waiting for a group of politicians to start harping about being soft on crime

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
Keep all the private prisons open but fill them with people who own and support private prisons tia

BLARGHLE
Oct 2, 2013

But I want something good
to die for
To make it beautiful to live.
Yams Fan

JB50 posted:

:Protip:

When a prison closes they dont free the prisoners.

Who said they did, or should?

This is a sign of possible prison reforms to come that would hopefully lead to less incarceration across the board. If you end the profit motive for imprisoning people, you reduce the lobbying and bribes spent towards stricter laws and sentencing.

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

CharlestonJew posted:

Keep all the private prisons open but fill them with people who own and support private prisons tia

this is good pragmatism

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
now we just need to round up the executives

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

CharlestonJew posted:

Keep all the private prisons open but fill them with people who own and support private prisons tia

Or turn it into ultra-low income housing.

LordArgh
Mar 17, 2009

Nap Ghost

paul_soccer10 posted:

now we just need to execute the executives

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

they're less likely to spook if you round them all up into a big building and then lock the doors and set fire to it

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
i would also like to kill that judge that was taking bribes from private prisons to give harsh sentences to defendants

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Fallows
Jan 20, 2005

If he waits long enough he can use his accrued interest from his savings to bring his negative checking balance back into the black.
Ok i just learned about shorting stocks yesterday thanks to GBS, this seems like an appropiate time to do that... anyone got any money now that i can use?

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