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drxdrg08 t1_ja8p9y2 wrote

Reply to comment by beef_is_here in Pennsylvania GOP Senator Pushes State Police To Reconsider Gun Restrictions For Cannabis Consumers by OregonTripleBeam

> they would prefer to put MORE people in jail

What's the incentive to do that do you think?

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WallStSucksChinaDick t1_ja8skuh wrote

Are you asking why? Because private prisons will not filled themselves up on their own. Follow money. Profit.

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drxdrg08 t1_ja9qrnu wrote

There are no private prisons in this state.

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Dagon_Targaryen t1_ja8ze41 wrote

The for profit prison industry for one but mainly who do you think gets disproportionately arrested and convicted of these crimes….

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drxdrg08 t1_ja9qt70 wrote

There are no private prisons in this state.

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Dagon_Targaryen t1_ja9s9dq wrote

The state owns the prisons but contracts out to private for profit security companies like The GEO Group to run our prisons. Nice try though.

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drxdrg08 t1_ja9uz6h wrote

That's not true. Prison guards are unionized civil service positions.

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Dagon_Targaryen t1_ja9xn6n wrote

My guy I don’t think you are quite grasping the concept that PA has a mixture of state run and contracted facilities.

What’s funny is you can even look through by district and region on the cor.pa.gov site and see which are contract too.

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