PFBA - Privatized Incarceration

No civilized society ought to allow for it’s penal system to be privatized. All jails and prisons should be owned and operated by government itself. Allowing privatization of jails and prisons means that a business is created and that business then becomes in the business of profiteering on the backs of prisoners. It creates a system that needs prisoners in order to be profitable and therefore, this privatized system should not be allowed.

No inmate should be forced to pay for their room and board. This again creates a system which requires inmates in order to generate a profit. If the citizenry cannot afford to house it’s prisoners, it needs to adjust it’s system in order to house only dangerous criminals.

America incarcerates more of it’s population by percentage than nearly any other country in the civilized world. The system of profiteering on the backs of inmates should be banned.