My fellow Atlasians
I will be an advocate for the elimination of private prisons.
Private prisons will be phased out under my administration, and turned over to the national prison system.
There are simply too many disadvantages to private prisons, in particularly the corruption that occurs. Private prisons are in the business of housing prisoners in order to maximize profits. The more inmates they have the more money they make. This leads to excessive terms being imposed in order to make more money for prisoner placement. Bribery of judges can also take place so they will in fact impose longer sentences.
Prisoners tend to serve longer sentences in private prisons.
Studies have shown that prisoners who are being held in private prisons may serve sentences that are up to 7% longer than prisoners who are in public prisons.
Many private prisons do not house costly prisoners.
Many private prisons are given the opportunity to pick and choose which prisoners they house. High-risk prisoners tend to be costlier to supervise.
Private prisons can leave communities with costly facilities that are empty.
Private prisons are operated on a contractual basis. The community is often responsible for the facility, while the private prison is responsible for filling the beds.
Private prisons tend to be more violent because of low staffing levels.
Private prisons see up to 50% more violence when compared to public prisons with regards to inmate-on-officer assaults.
Prisoners can be thousands of miles away from their family.
Prisoner exchange programs can cause inmate transfers that may be hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away from their family.
It creates the foundation for corruption.
Because prisoners are required for a private prison to be profitable, their budgets are never 100% certain.
There may be zero cost-savings advantages.
Comparisons of private vs public prisons that are of similar size and house similar inmates show that both systems face similar cost-per-day rates.
It creates the foundation for corruption.
Because prisoners are required for a private prison to be profitable, their budgets are never 100% certain. To solve this problem, there are several instances of corporations working with local systems of justice to extend sentences to longer lengths or charge with higher-level crimes for longer sentences.
Many corporations, such as private prisons, have a reputation of focusing on profits over purpose, which can create numerous hardships.
Will you be making any attempts to reduce the vast amount of influence prison unions have?
