Should private prisons be outlawed?

[Associate Justice PiT]

     No, though they should run under the stipulations suggested by Franzl in combination with public ones being outlawed.

[Associate Justice PiT]

with public ones being outlawed.

Why?

     Maybe I am mistaken, but wouldn't it be cheaper for the government to just make sure that they treat their prisoners in a respectable fashion than it would be to actually run your own prisons?

[Associate Justice PiT]

with public ones being outlawed.

Why?

     Maybe I am mistaken, but wouldn't it be cheaper for the government to just make sure that they treat their prisoners in a respectable fashion than it would be to actually run your own prisons?

Almost certainly not.

     Oh? I wasn't aware that regulation was typically more expensive than operation, it seems.

[Associate Justice PiT]

with public ones being outlawed.

Why?

     Maybe I am mistaken, but wouldn't it be cheaper for the government to just make sure that they treat their prisoners in a respectable fashion than it would be to actually run your own prisons?

Almost certainly not.

     Oh? I wasn't aware that regulation was typically more expensive than operation, it seems.

You still have to pay for the prisons' operation, you know.

I'm sure that the magic of teh market will find some way of dealing with that "reality based" problem.

     I actually realized that only private prisons aren't that feasible (since as you pointed out, they need some means of turning a profit). But I couldn't figure out a good way to jump back into the flow & forgot about it until now.

     Also, I'm a propertarian, not an anarcho-capitalist. Get it straight. Not to suggest that they're mutually exclusive, though I choose to emphasize the former.