Private sector-run prisons is a stupid, lazy idea

it due focus. The big prison story is the alleged involvement of a newly-elected the Bilibid. Senator de Lima, an archenemy of Mr. Duterte for some time, and a target of the president’s ire, was accused to involvement in the Bilibid drug trade, which reportedly bankrolled her May senatorial campaign.

The problem was this. The determined Lima to the alleged drug trade, evidence that would lead to the jailing of the senator, failed. “Lock her up” was just as intense as the Trump supporters’ call for the jailing of Hillary Clinton. So the end result was this. Ms. De Lima will be locked up in her critics’ imaginary prison.

So Congress, having failed to lay the groundwork for the jailing of Ms. De Lima, will have to go back to the “in aid of legislation” thing. But many doubt the need to put “prison reforms” into legislation. Because what are needed are already in place, covered every step of the way by the DOJ/NBP rules. That no new thing and fresh concepts can be written into legislation may prod the legislators to propose what has been untried in our country – private sector built and run prisons.

Private prisons will only be built by corporate interests (only giant corporations can handle a responsibility that big) under one scheme – via the PPP route. The private sector will not build prisons without government support and guarantee. The motivation, we all

for the long term and there should be a viable market. Operating prisons and operating them viably require a steady the prison gates. This is anathema to the grand ideals of every democratic country’s judicial system – which is keeping criminality at low, negligible rates for the common good. Then, we move on to the highest dream – a society that barely needs prisons.

Prisons cannot be operated by entities that need a more-than-viable ROI. And that needs a steady stream of “clients” to survive. And the PPP provenance makes matters worse. Should the private sector-run prisons go bankrupt, the state, the taxpayers rather, will have to shoulder the burden of the bankruptcy.

The US Department of Justice has decided to phase-out federal private prisons and private detention facilities for suspected violators of immigration laws. Senator Bernie Sanders and many political progressives said that was a laudable step but still falls short on what is needed to be done.

“We have to end the private prison racket in America as quickly as possible,” Sanders said. Indeed, political progressives have a name for private prisons – a racket.

They are anti-people. The idea of building them is stupid and lazy.