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RE: Our Homeless Experience 7: The Homeless Shelter, Part 2
A quota to fill the prisoner population... what in the world?? Increase crime populations to fill the quota or make absurd laws to make it happen. Not a place I would want to visit. How is it that there is still a population there?
Oklahoma isn't the only state where this is occurring:
"Report Finds Two-Thirds of Private Prison Contracts Include “Lockup Quotas”"
"An analysis of private prison contracts from across the United States reveals that state and local governments commonly enter into agreements that require them to keep prisons filled or pay for unused, empty beds."
Source:
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2015/jul/31/report-finds-two-thirds-private-prison-contracts-include-lockup-quotas/
That's just sick!
Agreed. It's sad, too. My apologies for hijacking @hickorymack 's post, the problems are all inter-related, and the more we all know about it, the more effectively we can take action in our own communities. The current system is simply non-sustainable, IMO, and will eventually devour itself. That being said, it is likely to devour innocent people as well. We just cannot let that happen.
The fight is there and its real. We need strong people to fight back.