Dagon_Targaryen t1_ja8ze41 wrote
Reply to comment by drxdrg08 in Pennsylvania GOP Senator Pushes State Police To Reconsider Gun Restrictions For Cannabis Consumers by OregonTripleBeam
The for profit prison industry for one but mainly who do you think gets disproportionately arrested and convicted of these crimes….
drxdrg08 t1_ja9qt70 wrote
There are no private prisons in this state.
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.
drxdrg08 t1_ja9uz6h wrote
That's not true. Prison guards are unionized civil service positions.
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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