Prisons as Farms

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?_r=1&em

Do you know of any similar practices?

Originally posted by spruce112358
No, I don't.

But I think you have just made a splendid argument for 'good, old-fashioned, inefficient' jury trials.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?_r=1&em

Do you know of any similar practices?

Originally posted by utherpendragon
Yes. It happens all over the U.S. especially in the South. This is standard procedure and a common practice. The only way around it is to pay serious cash for a lawyer who is in cahoots with the Judge and pays him off. Other than that you are screwed!

Originally posted by kmax87
Convict labor hey! Well it worked for Australia why not the US
South?

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Or perhaps a splendid argument against privately run detention centers.

Originally posted by utherpendragon
Yes. It happens all over the U.S. especially in the South. This is standard procedure and a common practice. The only way around it is to pay serious cash for a lawyer who is in cahoots with the Judge and pays him off. Other than that you are screwed!

Originally posted by shavixmir
Isn't it slavery?

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?_r=1&em

Do you know of any similar practices?

Originally posted by spruce112358
Because there is no such thing as corruption in government?

Originally posted by zeeblebot
we could just drop them all off on an arctic island with parkas and bean plants.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Prisons are farms? That's a good way of looking at it. We are reaping what we sow.