Imagine making a mistake in your life and being sent to prison only to be exploited in a way that makes you feel like less than a human being. Often the companies that own these prisons overlook the conditions and maintenance in order to keep their profits maximized. Inmates are treated like numbers rather than people, because companies are focused on the number of prisoners they can house rather than the number of prisoners they can rehabilitate. Author Seth Wessler wrote about the harsh conditions faced in Adams County Corrections Center in “They Knew Something Was Going on”. “Inadequate medical care, low staffing levels, food-service issues,’’ were all repulsive conditions faced in the Adams County corrections center that led to a massive
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Accord to the article, “Private Prison Industry” they collect billions of dollars a year from the government to provide correctional and incarceration services. These two companies have taken over the criminal justice system in America by buying out smaller correctional companies. Within 10 years the GEO group spent $ 2 billion buying corrections companies (In The Public Interest1). Together both of these companies have earned $2.7 billion just from the government for incarcerating prisoners (Private Prison Industry). These private prisons have converted the criminal justice system into a business. They even have their own stocks which makes them publicly traded companies like Apple and Google. These companies and companies like them are the reason for the transition in the criminal justice …show more content…
Prisons owned by CCA and GEO provide inmates with inadequate medical care and staffed with poorly trained guards. In February of 2008, The Nation reported more than 38 men passed on in the BOP 's secretly run detainment facilities from 1998 to 2014. An examination of beforehand unreleased documents uncovered that gravely sick detainees had been left untreated, or consigned to the care of low-level therapeutic specialists(Wessler19). In a few instances, prisoners went months without seeing a specialist(Wessler19). Employees of private prisons are almost always undertrained and poorly paid. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, “workforce instability has resulted in riots, rapes, assaults and escapes.” At one now-shut down understaffed CCA facility in Idaho, undertrained officers depended on prompting gangs among prisoners as an “inexpensive device to gain control over the inmate population (Private Prison Industry).” Staffing private prisons with these under trained guards not only jeopardizes their lives but also the lives of the inmates.
Private prisons should be ruled unlawful and the prison system should be in the hands of the government. It is unmoral to take away someone’s freedom and force them to live in disgusting conditions and work for pennies. Any person profiting from private prisons is evil because you agree with profiting from a mistake someone
Accord to the article, “Private Prison Industry” they collect billions of dollars a year from the government to provide correctional and incarceration services. These two companies have taken over the criminal justice system in America by buying out smaller correctional companies. Within 10 years the GEO group spent $ 2 billion buying corrections companies (In The Public Interest1). Together both of these companies have earned $2.7 billion just from the government for incarcerating prisoners (Private Prison Industry). These private prisons have converted the criminal justice system into a business. They even have their own stocks which makes them publicly traded companies like Apple and Google. These companies and companies like them are the reason for the transition in the criminal justice …show more content…
Prisons owned by CCA and GEO provide inmates with inadequate medical care and staffed with poorly trained guards. In February of 2008, The Nation reported more than 38 men passed on in the BOP 's secretly run detainment facilities from 1998 to 2014. An examination of beforehand unreleased documents uncovered that gravely sick detainees had been left untreated, or consigned to the care of low-level therapeutic specialists(Wessler19). In a few instances, prisoners went months without seeing a specialist(Wessler19). Employees of private prisons are almost always undertrained and poorly paid. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, “workforce instability has resulted in riots, rapes, assaults and escapes.” At one now-shut down understaffed CCA facility in Idaho, undertrained officers depended on prompting gangs among prisoners as an “inexpensive device to gain control over the inmate population (Private Prison Industry).” Staffing private prisons with these under trained guards not only jeopardizes their lives but also the lives of the inmates.
Private prisons should be ruled unlawful and the prison system should be in the hands of the government. It is unmoral to take away someone’s freedom and force them to live in disgusting conditions and work for pennies. Any person profiting from private prisons is evil because you agree with profiting from a mistake someone