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Dan Druff
Democrats aren't exactly doing much about privatized prisons, either.
And contrary to the left-wing narrative, the problem with the privatized prisons is high cost and corrupt operations. They like to say that there's a huge conspiracy to imprison black people so the privatized prisons can make more money, but in reality, this has only occurred in a few isolated cases in small counties where no one's watching. It's nowhere near a chronic problem.
The privatized prison thing needs to end, though. The problem is that neither party wants to make the move to do it, and risk losing those lucrative campaign donations.
Surely nobody is saying that private prisons are the reason the American justice system is racist? And the left wing argument definitely also about money.
Saying the democrats haven’t done anything is an outright lie. Democrats under Obama definitely battled against private prisons:
The Trump administration has scrapped Barack Obama’s program of ending the justice department’s use of private prisons, embracing an industry that has come under sharp criticism from civil rights advocates.
Jeff Sessions, Trump’s attorney general, on Thursday rescinded a six-month-old directive for the Federal Bureau of Prisons to wind down contracts with prison companies, claiming that the measure had “impaired the bureau’s ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e_iOSApp_Other
“Neither party wants to make the move” - come on. Dems DID make the move and Trump not only supported private prisons, he reversed this order.