In addition to that they also receive supplementaries from the Fed. So yeah, the incentive is there as yours truly knows this for a fact better than most.
Working with junkies and alcoholics i can bet my life that if this social and personal disease got that kind of funding our prison populations would be less than half of what they are today.
Same thing with the border/war on crime.
Theres just too many jobs and industry at stake to approach these problems realistically.
From cops to judges to prison guards to institutional food service…

theres a lot of jobs and industry dependent on a minimal amount of people getting locked up.
And quite frankly I seen this system destroy more lives than it betters.
I’m simply one of the few who got lucky by deciding to be as independent of government as possible.
The people I work with are all victims of something. Be it a shtty childhood, mommy complex, hereditary addiction, recreational use gets out of hand, but the majority are there because they’re victims of a dysfunctional government with only one function they manage to execute quite well.
To keep people in a paradoxical hell hole of entitlements and regulations

No ass hole.
I just listen to people in context.
I heard him the first time he said and predicted ass holes like you would cherry pick it for everything it was worth.
And I was right.

I dont like the man either, have you read my posts ?
But the truth is what it is and we’d all be alot better of if ass holes like you shut the fck up unless you got something constructive to say.

Well, they do get jobs.
But of course the govt will make sure they cant get one.

Its all very elementary.

I’ll extend your benefits.
In exchange you vote for me.

Baddabing baddaboom

I remember my stockbroker telling me to invest in Corrections Inc. back in the eighties. They were one of the first private prison companies.

Good tip.

People scream about entitlements, but why not invest that money in the poor rather than sending them to jail for possesing a miniscule amount of crack.

The idea that if you simply cut entitlements that the poor will simply disappear or move is ridiculous. I swear people think that will happen.

Ever watch The Wire. Truth be told.

Since LBJ launched “The War On Poverty” we have spent 16 billion dollars in aid to the poor and it has done minimal good (I heard it made a 4% difference). The poor need to get more help to get out of the situation they are in because the current system does nothing to help them. By focusing on the middle class you bring more help and opportunity to the poor class by proxy.

Think about how pathetic this concept is: A majority of the poor will vote for obama, and he is for reinforcing the system that keeps them down instead of voting for someone like Mitt Romney who will have economical policies that would have a positive effect on them.

Secondly, California spends on average $47,000 a year per inmate in the prison system. It only costs about $1,000 to put a poor kid in a program that will help him / her change their lives for the better but they don’t put that kind of money there.

You cannot take something Romney or anyone else said out of context and contort it into something that you would like it to be when it really is not what he said.