gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoTIL Private Prison stocks skyrocketed when Trump was first electedwww.thestreet.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkTIL Private Prison stocks skyrocketed when Trump was first electedwww.thestreet.comgedaliyah@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square2fedilink
minus-squaresafesyrup@lemmy.hogru.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoIt sounds so utterly ridiculous to have a publicly traded prison
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoYou think that’s bad? Food in most county lockups is so bad, be use of the way it’s funded. The Sheriff gets paid like $10/day/prisoner, and then they pay for the food. So there’s a direct financial incentive for them to keep the jail at capacity and provide the cheapest possible meals.
It sounds so utterly ridiculous to have a publicly traded prison
You think that’s bad?
Food in most county lockups is so bad, be use of the way it’s funded.
The Sheriff gets paid like $10/day/prisoner, and then they pay for the food.
So there’s a direct financial incentive for them to keep the jail at capacity and provide the cheapest possible meals.