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user-inactivated · 3063 days ago · link · · parent · post: Public jails support an interesting network of private healthcare companies and suppliers
bfv Because of the word 'seriously', I read a timely piece from Mother Jones, a publication I normally do not touch. It told me more or less what I expected it to. However, an interesting subject. Two conclusions, perhaps not the ones I was supposed to draw. 1. These so-called private prisons are supported by so many government grants that I'm not sure what the point is. 2. If they were state prisons in name as well as monetarily, I don't think conditions would be any different (assuming the place profiled in Mother Jones represents the more extreme end).