Don't live there but I voted for Prisons. Hey- those who do it in America make a Gr8 living.
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Don't live there but I voted for Prisons. Hey- those who do it in America make a Gr8 living.
If they do like U.S.A : taxpayers would have to pay for any empty beds should crime rates fall below that quota.
Private Corporations world wide- are following the American trend which is: striking deals with states that contain clauses guaranteeing high prison occupancy rates.
Check out/google The report, “Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and ‘Low-Crime Taxes’ Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations,”
It documents the contracts of private prison companies who hold state governments to guarantee prison occupancy rates (AKA a fucking quota) to be met or..
or force taxpayers to pay for empty beds if the prison population decreases
If they go like America- whom had 48 state governors in 2012 whom utilizes Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Thisone company buys up & operate public state prisons. for like 10-20 year contract.
Those who don't play ball there way? Then they send something called lobbyist to washington to (lobby) for it. Or they will fund politicians outright who then turn around & claim government is to fucked up to run a prison. So let a private company do it.
Last- I am not sure if CCA is the old Wackenhut. Wackenhut got tired of being questioned about how they got rich off of people going to jail-so they changed their name.
Whats the old saying? Crime pays or Crime doesnt pay? Crime pays prison builders...well. Very Well.
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Prisons are privatised here and they have poor conditions and a lot of drug problems.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
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We privatized energy and what happened , my gas bill used to be about £120 a quarter to £360 a
quarter , same with electric bill.
Remember if profit comes into delivering ANY PUBLIC service, corners are cut in the name of profit
large wage bills for CEO, the public are ripped off.![]()
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I take your point, Dia, especially regarding huge profits and overpaid executives ....... But nationalised services are usually pretty crap, run by pen pushers and auditors, with staff who don't have to work hard because the unions are too strong and there is little in the way of performance management culture (I admit that these are huge generalisations too)
Governments are crap at actually running things, and local authorities are even worse. Your energy bill may have gone up, but that doesn't mean that it's more expensive, the nationalised companies were just gobbling up public money below the radar.
Just to b controversial, our NHS service is not generally good when you consider what it costs, and in the long term is genuinely unsustainable.
If God wanted us to be vegetarians, why are animals made of meat ?
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