Reply #15: Privately run prisons are typically built in dirt-poor communities with high unemployment...

[Hekate]

... where it is easy to convince the city council and citizenry that a new prison will provide a significant number of jobs. They are not built next door to an existing, overcrowded, prison. The employees are, from what I gather, pretty much raw recruits, and I question what kind of training they have been given.

They are not accountable to anyone but their stockholders, which is a very bad thing.

State-run facilities are accountable to the law and ultimately to us. If they are corrupt, they can be forced to change by sufficient targeted citizen action.

Hekate