https://4closurefraud.org/2012/06/20/by-the-numbers-the-u-s-s-growing-for-profit-detention-industry/ - Fighting Foreclosure Fraud BY SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://4closurefraud.org/2012/06/20/by-the-numbers-the-u-s-s-growing-for-profit-detention-industry/#comment-384340 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:34:25 +0000 https://4closurefraud.org/?p=48333#comment-384340 Amen,
The average inmate working a regular 8-10 hour shift at making something that the private sector could make is less than a quarter an hour. Make more than the number required and you might get a nickle raise or so.
Why ship these jobs to Mexico or another starving country? Give them to the prison system as its much cheaper and the profits much higher..

]]> https://4closurefraud.org/2012/06/20/by-the-numbers-the-u-s-s-growing-for-profit-detention-industry/#comment-384308 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:17:58 +0000 https://4closurefraud.org/?p=48333#comment-384308 Heard this on NPR. Louisiana is a prison hellhole. We have turned our capitalistic society into a farce where it pays to warehouse prisoners, some needing rehabilitation or mental resources but “stored” in jails with no avenue to learn skills except to earn money for their captors. This is private enterprise at its worst when government programs could serve better with more fairness. Profit on human misery! If imprisonment is seen as profitable why not turn those profits back into programs to prevent recidivism.
What have we come to in this nation? Greed and fraud are rewarded and human misery is traded like so much kindling.

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