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Private Prisons: A Reliable American Growth Industry

You can't take credit for any analysis that would suggest growth of prison industry either because you are took at curve after the fact. The analysis in the past that would confirm such growth would look at right wing take over of American politics, their intense lobbying to imprison people for minor drug offenses and their desire to feed prison industry that they favored more prisoners obviously. Has political landscape changed to favor more imprisonment to sustain such a growth? the answer is an obvious NO. With 1% of US population being in jail, there is no room for such a growth and given the ideological basis for such growth have diminished, I think presumption is on your part believing that it can continue.

On Aug 25 11:44 AM Carneades wrote:

> If you were to look at these charts 10 years ago, I bet you would
> have come to the same conclusion regarding the trend being "unsustainable".
> You likely would have been operating off of the same assumption about
> drug legalization being "imminent". The simple existence of an upwards
> trending chart is not evidence that the trend is bound to reverse
> course.
>
> I think you're also making some faulty assumptions about the political
> and ideological balance of the country in matters of criminal justice;
> specifically where you perceive an inevitable trend towards rehabilitation
> v. deterrence, incapacitation, and retribution.
>
> It's exactly that sort of misreading of the political tea leaves
> which caused the current Administration's health care reform attempt
> to backfire. I don't profess to know the answer either, I'd just
> say that it's a bit presumptuous to assert that any policy shift
> is certain.

Private Prisons: A Reliable American Growth Industry

Sounds like the prison industry is trying to hand in their bags if you asked me or they are lobbying to acquire more funding as they know that the funding for this growth industry is going to dry up soon. The data that the author has posted contradicts his conclusions in fact. What it does show is the fact the growth of prison population is not sustainable given that there isn't more cash to sustain it. The fact the the fact growing percentage of population has been imprisoned to fund this miserable growth industry will work against it in fact.

Another poster mentioned that minor drug crimes have imprisoned a lot of people so it is obvious that with minor changes of the law, the funding to house these people to fund prison expansion can end. There is more prisons in USA that any industrial country, there is no need for more.