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Necessary public services should not be for profit. Yes, I know that framing prisons as "necessary public services" is a bit weird, but ideally, that's what it is.
Some form of law enforcement needs to exist, and compared to the alternatives we tried before, prison isn't that bad.
No, American prison is absolutely that bad. Those of us in other countries often look on in horror at the system you have created, and you personally are now defending.
There's a reason I used the word "ideally". While there are absolutely worse prison systems in the world, the US prison system cannot be described as "ideal".
This really seems like an attempt at minimizing the glaring issue that private prisons present.