Are there any laws in place that prevent private prisons from being designed to deliberately maximize recidivism? Because if there aren't, and high recidivism benefits the prisons, than that is definitely what's happening
It's more that private prisons just claim they're better than the public option whilst doing literally nothing to back up that claim. Then, the politicians who allow for private prisons either don't care they they're getting fleeced, or they're getting kickbacks from private prisons to allow for their awful behavior. With private prisons, a profit motive is an inherently perverse incentive.
There's not just in the US, they are *really* popular here in Australia, with at least 25% of the inmates, companies like CoreCivic and the GEO Group are really big here as well as in the US imperial homeland.
Glad you came then, was very pleased to see he shouted out my vid. Yeah, private prisons are as mind boggling as they are infuriating, an intentionally broken system designed to increased suffering just to enrich a hyperminority of literal sociopaths.
One has to wonder what can possibly be going through someone's head, where they see and understand what they're inflicting upon someone, and go _"...yeah, this is fine. I'm a good person for doing this."_ For what, money, more money than they can reasonably spend in their lifetimes? What could they possibly buy with that in their lifetimes that's worth torturing vast swathes of their country for?
It's not even about more money than they can spend, it's about all of the money exchanging hands at all levels. Of the millions that get spent on lobbying for the continued existence of private prisons, there's probably several hundred people in Washington getting their hands greased to the tune of a few thousand just to pass on that someone else should pass on that someone else should put down a Y on a ballot on the floor and expect a generous compensation for doing so, and here's their information if they want to have a chat about it. These companies are "taking care" of so many people that the idea of this money leaving the political system is unconscionable to the only people who have the power to make it so. This isn't even necessarily an issue of one thing, be it greed or mistreatment of prisoners or apathy toward petty criminals interred into the system; it's a conflux of everything wrong in the heart of the American political establishment
Perhaps this unknowable, unthinkable entity will at last be sated, and my many labors unto it will finally be acknowledged and rewarded. On the real thanks, hope you enjoyed the vid here.
@@tacocat1921 Glad you enjoyed it but sorry it was a depressing viewing. It's a gross system, but depression/discouragement won't get us anywhere. Convert your sadness into anger at the ghouls and sociopaths behind this, share the vid around, and get the word out for substantive change on this front. Private prisons are a fairly niche topic, one few are aware of and thus one few have strong opinions on. Whether you're just concerned with fiscal responsibility, or are an actual human with empathy, there is essentially no argument in favor of this system. Thus, informing, educating, and agitating people against private prisons has a reasonable chance of impacting positive change. Only time will tell, but it's something that should and definitely can be done. Imperfect Prison System is something way down the line, currently have a few other projects I'm working on.
This was a pretty good video. Concise with interesting facts that I hadn't seen in other prison-related documentaries. I do hope you'll release part 2 at some point!
I appreciate it man, glad you enjoyed it, and hope you were able to get something out of the vid. Part two is a bit on the backburner but that's mostly because I want to make it something special.
The local prison in South West Utah is privately owned and they charge the inmates for every day they are there. They do give you a discount for good behavior and if you can pay it all when you leave.
Asylums are a tricky proposition, they probably save society money (and if not they're still worth it), and they do help their charges in a sense, but at the same time there are concerns over violating people's liberties in institutionalizing them. Greater support for general mental health services is an absolute must, fully agree on that end.
Not all drug use disapproved of by the State or explicitly recommended by a physician is "abuse" and thus negative. The assumption drug use is something society needs to combat is part of the reason why so many people in the US are incarcerated. (I'm aware that one can hold a negative view of nonmedical drug use without advocating criminalisation, but this mostly involves treating disordered/addictive use patterns as a health issue. Since most users are not addicts or experiencing major health issues caused by drugs, and have already chosen to defy social pressure and reject the message of pro-abstinence education including the current law in its role as a teacher, the only thing likely to reduce rates of use is direct coercion. I know this may seem a minor point in addressing a line of the introductory section not about the main topic of this video, but I felt there was sufficient nexus between pejorative views of drug use and the prison system (private or no) in the US to make it worthy of criticism.
Consider this: drug use was used to relate black and/or leftist persons to "criminalized behaviors" and to then imprison them based on their identity and also for the cheap labor afforded under the 13th amendment's clause "except as punishment for a crime". Drugs are relatively easy to plant, especially compared to the next step up with friday night specials. Becoming a felon excludes your right to vote, pushing policy further right. At every step of the process the invisible hand of the profit motive necessarily entrenches itself to prevent capital flight instead of solve human problems. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -from harpers via John Ehrlichman.
Larry, I fully support you - even bought a hat! Three months & counting… never got it; you need to change your fulfillment company man! They can’t keep up (which is awesome for you).
You'll want to reach out to Larry on one of his channels or email him/the company, he shouted this doc out but he's not affiliated with my channel. Sorry for the slow receipt of your hat.
💥💥I don't know how you fix public prisons people keep committing crimes all the time every time I turn around on the news somebody is doing something stupid.
someone's doing "something stupid" and you think the valorous and moral choice is to kidnap them and put them in a cage and force them to do labor for you. examine that
Highly anticipating part 2 I'll be watching from my private prison cell
Grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy!
Are there any laws in place that prevent private prisons from being designed to deliberately maximize recidivism? Because if there aren't, and high recidivism benefits the prisons, than that is definitely what's happening
It's more that private prisons just claim they're better than the public option whilst doing literally nothing to back up that claim. Then, the politicians who allow for private prisons either don't care they they're getting fleeced, or they're getting kickbacks from private prisons to allow for their awful behavior.
With private prisons, a profit motive is an inherently perverse incentive.
There's not just in the US, they are *really* popular here in Australia, with at least 25% of the inmates, companies like CoreCivic and the GEO Group are really big here as well as in the US imperial homeland.
That's really depressing to hear, wasn't aware of their presence in Australia.
@@CiggySnake Indeed depressing you learn, I was fairly shocked myself when I learnt it.
Over here from Thought Slime, really cool video ^-^ Unfortunate subject, abolish private prisons and the entire prison system.
Glad you came then, was very pleased to see he shouted out my vid. Yeah, private prisons are as mind boggling as they are infuriating, an intentionally broken system designed to increased suffering just to enrich a hyperminority of literal sociopaths.
Mildo sent me. Praise -Oculon- no name eyeball entity.
The eyes of the mighty algorithm are upon thee. It's genuinely shocking how inhumane these private prisons are.
WOE, EYEBALLS UPON YE
private prisons sounds like something from a dystopian sci fi novel
Yeah, it's utterly disgusting. The entire industry is based on increasing the suffering of others.
Love the SMT ost in the background.
Also, good video
Fellow SMT enjoyer, tremendous. Glad you liked the vid man, it's a major issue that needs to be discussed.
Lord Occulon sent me here from "The EyeBall Zone!!!"
One has to wonder what can possibly be going through someone's head, where they see and understand what they're inflicting upon someone, and go _"...yeah, this is fine. I'm a good person for doing this."_ For what, money, more money than they can reasonably spend in their lifetimes? What could they possibly buy with that in their lifetimes that's worth torturing vast swathes of their country for?
It's not even about more money than they can spend, it's about all of the money exchanging hands at all levels. Of the millions that get spent on lobbying for the continued existence of private prisons, there's probably several hundred people in Washington getting their hands greased to the tune of a few thousand just to pass on that someone else should pass on that someone else should put down a Y on a ballot on the floor and expect a generous compensation for doing so, and here's their information if they want to have a chat about it.
These companies are "taking care" of so many people that the idea of this money leaving the political system is unconscionable to the only people who have the power to make it so. This isn't even necessarily an issue of one thing, be it greed or mistreatment of prisoners or apathy toward petty criminals interred into the system; it's a conflux of everything wrong in the heart of the American political establishment
For the love of money is the root of all evil
Thank you so much for having captions on this video!
The eyeballs brought me here and now I will feed the lovecraftian horror that is the youtube algorthm
Perhaps this unknowable, unthinkable entity will at last be sated, and my many labors unto it will finally be acknowledged and rewarded.
On the real thanks, hope you enjoyed the vid here.
@@CiggySnake We can only hope.
Thank you for the video. It was both enjoyable and depressing. I'm looking forward to part 2.
@@tacocat1921 Glad you enjoyed it but sorry it was a depressing viewing. It's a gross system, but depression/discouragement won't get us anywhere. Convert your sadness into anger at the ghouls and sociopaths behind this, share the vid around, and get the word out for substantive change on this front.
Private prisons are a fairly niche topic, one few are aware of and thus one few have strong opinions on. Whether you're just concerned with fiscal responsibility, or are an actual human with empathy, there is essentially no argument in favor of this system. Thus, informing, educating, and agitating people against private prisons has a reasonable chance of impacting positive change. Only time will tell, but it's something that should and definitely can be done.
Imperfect Prison System is something way down the line, currently have a few other projects I'm working on.
Thanks Ciggy, for shining light on this terrible situation . I came over from that chemist channel.
Thank you, it's an absolutely terrible industry/situation and something that needs to be addressed
This was a pretty good video. Concise with interesting facts that I hadn't seen in other prison-related documentaries. I do hope you'll release part 2 at some point!
I appreciate it man, glad you enjoyed it, and hope you were able to get something out of the vid. Part two is a bit on the backburner but that's mostly because I want to make it something special.
The local prison in South West Utah is privately owned and they charge the inmates for every day they are there. They do give you a discount for good behavior and if you can pay it all when you leave.
Nice video! Btw I loved the factorio soundtrack
Reopening the Asylums and revamping the mental health industry should help. There's too many crazies just walking freely amongst the sane.
Asylums are a tricky proposition, they probably save society money (and if not they're still worth it), and they do help their charges in a sense, but at the same time there are concerns over violating people's liberties in institutionalizing them. Greater support for general mental health services is an absolute must, fully agree on that end.
Never thought I'd hear "Beyond ''prison'' outskirts" in this video. I thought I had the game running :') Nice video too.
Fellow Factorio enjoyer, the OST is honestly underrated. Glad you enjoyed the vid as well.
The eye balls fall upon you *I really like this video. Thank you for teaching me and other! you are based and pogbones*
Eyeballs
NEW CIGGY VIDEO LETS GOO
Another month another banger
Eyeballs unite.
Very informative coverage on a very important topic
Why does this video still have only 98 views? The TH-cam algorithm has failed.
Great channel.
Not all drug use disapproved of by the State or explicitly recommended by a physician is "abuse" and thus negative. The assumption drug use is something society needs to combat is part of the reason why so many people in the US are incarcerated.
(I'm aware that one can hold a negative view of nonmedical drug use without advocating criminalisation, but this mostly involves treating disordered/addictive use patterns as a health issue. Since most users are not addicts or experiencing major health issues caused by drugs, and have already chosen to defy social pressure and reject the message of pro-abstinence education including the current law in its role as a teacher, the only thing likely to reduce rates of use is direct coercion.
I know this may seem a minor point in addressing a line of the introductory section not about the main topic of this video, but I felt there was sufficient nexus between pejorative views of drug use and the prison system (private or no) in the US to make it worthy of criticism.
Consider this: drug use was used to relate black and/or leftist persons to "criminalized behaviors" and to then imprison them based on their identity and also for the cheap labor afforded under the 13th amendment's clause "except as punishment for a crime". Drugs are relatively easy to plant, especially compared to the next step up with friday night specials. Becoming a felon excludes your right to vote, pushing policy further right. At every step of the process the invisible hand of the profit motive necessarily entrenches itself to prevent capital flight instead of solve human problems.
“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” -from harpers via John Ehrlichman.
Dig the Zelda music, and the video!
Thanks man, Faron Woods is a pretty song. Glad you liked the vid as well.
I thought I had recognized it! I couldn't place it until I saw the song list in the pastebin link in the description.
a new challel to watch the catalog off
I hope you enjoy your stay then
The sweet smell of dystopia in the morning 🥰
recidivism?
you mean repeat customers
There's a private prison in Faron Woods? 🥺
Eyeballed
Larry, I fully support you - even bought a hat! Three months & counting… never got it; you need to change your fulfillment company man! They can’t keep up (which is awesome for you).
You'll want to reach out to Larry on one of his channels or email him/the company, he shouted this doc out but he's not affiliated with my channel. Sorry for the slow receipt of your hat.
ciggy you're so smart and talented
Thanks sweetheart 💋
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No!
based video as always, ciggy. Also, part 2 confirmed?
In due time, I have a few ideas for other vids which I may explore first but I'll get around to it.
cliffhanger 😱
Hi hi from the zone des yeux
Das Augensland
sorry, i can't keep watching when you're using music from factorio for this D:
Genuinely curious, but why would the use of Factorio music turn you away?
Sick
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I see no issues with private prisons. USA is a corporation. Let corporations thrive
CoreCivic sucks
💥💥I don't know how you fix public prisons people keep committing crimes all the time every time I turn around on the news somebody is doing something stupid.
someone's doing "something stupid" and you think the valorous and moral choice is to kidnap them and put them in a cage and force them to do labor for you. examine that
*Eye* am engaging with this content.
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