…but kind of expected. Here’s the part that speaks to me most:
But the ballooning of privatized detention has been accompanied by scathing inspection reports, lawsuits and the documentation of widespread abuse and neglect, sometimes lethal. Human rights groups say detention has neither worked as a deterrent nor speeded deportation, as governments contend, and some worry about the creation of a “detention-industrial complex” with a momentum of its own.
And how will we ever be able to stop it then?
If you make incarceration a business, the people who run it are 1) going to want to maximize the number of people imprisoned and 2) minimize the amount of money they spend on each individual prisoner. Which means neglect; which means lower hiring standards, cheaper guards, and more abuse.
As conservatives are supposed to understand incentive structures, I am forced to presume this is what they want. The racial disparities in imprisonment provide further reason to believe so.Report
Amen brotha.Report
Oh what Hannah Arendt would have to say about this!Report
I have such a huge dead-historical-figure-crush on Hannah Arendt.Report