A growing industry
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Well, corporations are buying up public libraries, too. Wonder what books will become unavailable. 
Traffic ticket quotas are bad enough. Prisoner quotas strike me as a particularly bad idea, to seriously understate the case.
The concept has possibilities, but the quota infringes on the authority/independence of judges and district attorneys.
On the other hand, shouldn't we look at the historical occpancy rate of the prisons in question? Maybe 90% isn't unreasonable.
On the other hand, shouldn't we look at the historical occpancy rate of the prisons in question? Maybe 90% isn't unreasonable.
Well, all California has to do is not let people out, because we're at something ridiculous like 200% capacity.
This is nothing new. Just search Wackenhut (in business since at least the 90s) and privatized prisons. Interesting that it was outlawed at the dawn of the 20th century.
Two words. Heretic Camps. (Not to pick on you, that was just the term I used)
Copied over from the Santorum thread to avoid retyping.
I've gotta say, if Santorum gets elected, I'ma gonna laugh and laugh and laugh at all the people who four years ago were worried about an Imperial Presidency but haven't had a word to say about Obama consolidating additional power into the office over the last four years. I'll see y'all in the heretic camps; we can hang out an talk an' stuff, when we're not gettin' re-edjumacated.
"People get as much government as they deserve," I suppose.