It’s important to stay mentally sober just before elections. The potential for decent rehabilitation and care giving in private detention centers exists, and in some cases at least it could easily exceed that of the standard bureaucratic regimes in governmental institutions, federal, state, and local.
That said, they have to be run to make a profit, and the downside of that is very steep. Prisons of some sort for hazardous people are as much a public need as public roads, a public postal service, and governmentally operated military. Private prisons have as much or more potential for secret abuse than private armies. They should be very temporary at best. At worst, they have the potential to become awful.
Keep your eyes on the road and your hands properly placed on the steering wheel. Be ready to stop on a dime. Flash your blinkers at any vehicle crowding from the rear.
Think. Think again. Think once more. That doesn’t mean see no evil.
I’m bailing from this thread.
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