This is insane

One of the reasons I hung my uniform up and moved on.
Little known fact that of how lobbyists can destroy us is that in the 90’s after the Clinton crime bill was introduced as law lobbyists groups went through out the states and pushed for private prisons on the preface that they were just as effective but cheaper.

And one state in particular Arizona jumped in and said hell Yeah let’s do this! So they started out with 4 prisons different levels male and female and for the first couple of years things were good.

But due to the initial success of the crime bill as well as the use of force continuum leading to easier arrests with lesser charges there was a drop in the prison population.
And that’s when the state of Arizona and a few others were hit with lawsuits by these private prisons because in their contracts they were to keep these facilities full and if they went below a certain level for an extended period of time then the state was in violation of their contract.

Now wait it gets worse. So now these states feel compelled to create more laws in order to maintain the capacities of these prisons.
Well that wasn’t good enough because these lobbyists also had laws changed that turned prison offenses into street crimes.
So what would’ve been time in a segregated detention and loss of good time now turned into more years.

So you that they sued because there wasn’t enough inmates right? Well now there’s too many so they sued over that which forced the state of Arizona to have build more prisons and by contract a set number of them had to be private.

And if you haven’t figured it out yet this meant more tax dollars being spent these private facilities btw some of which were using inmates to perform work for private industries. Now let that set in.

So finally 15 years after Arizona opened it’s first private they did an audit and discovered that their corrections budget was 38% higher than it was in states without or very few private prisons.
And they did start to take several facilities back under state control but with the great pumpkin that effort was slowed down.

But hopefully in a couple years we can undo this illegal ass practice once and for all.

Capitalism; you got to make and get it while you can, any way you can.

And it will only get worse. Some states have even had laws to decrease this fought on the premise it hurts the economy. This crap keeps mandatory sentences and unfair minority sentences