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Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy
I started applying for jobs in private prisons because I wanted to see the inner workings of an industry that holds 131,000 of the nation's 1.6 million prisoners. As a journalist, it's nearly impossible to get an unconstrained look inside our penal system. When prisons do let reporters in, it's usually for carefully managed tours and monitored interviews with inmates.
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Private prisons are an abomination and they should end. Period. There are very few things in this country that have a bigger conflict of interest than cops, judges and prosecutors who are allowed to own stock in private prisons where they send people. I want to say that it surprises me that it's legal, but it does not surprise me at all.
Legal is not the same as moral, especially not with our current politicians.
Capitalism, it finds its way into everything.