After many controversial incidents with private prisons, President Biden is pulling America out of the private prison business in a significant break with what Trump’s administration had done. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber is joined by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson to discuss the significance of this action. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 01/26/2021.
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After Prison Beating, Biden Says U.S. Must End Private Prison Business | The Beat With Ari Melber
awesome
There should NEVER be a profit motive for jailing your neighbor.
Prison for profit must end but has the government ever run anything efficiently?
@Nomadjeff The government is us. Have your representatives done their job? Mine are doing theirs.
@Elizabeth Ayres the government is not us. Let me know when prisons aren’t privatized anymore. I’ll wait.
“except as a form of punishment,” is a right of the government to own slaves
it is called the bill of rights, not laws
How about make profit from turning in your parents.
Yes! Holding citizens in cells should not be a for-profit business!
@Mary no, that would mean that you stop putting people in prison for non violent offenses.
Shooting someone killing them and raping there dead body also shouldn’t be for the person who did it profit. Worry about why the criminals are set free bud bot the prison. Cause when it happens to you I’m sure you would want the person in the worst prison possible.
@BigCooter.com if your in prison you failed and are a criminal low life. Prison need to be paid more to make sure they have everything to make the prisoners miserable.
@young crusade Well of course, most violent criminals deserve to be in prison. The cultural issue is that we all would be better off if those people never became criminals, instead were educated productive members of society. Our Enormous prison population is a WELFARE Socialist System, that has become a life style for many, and the rest of us PAY FOR IT. Do you want to continue with that??.. or fix the fundamental issues that create criminals??.. so a decade or two from now, our prison population can be reduced to the level of other Western Countries that currently have far less crime.
This man is not human. Can’t you tell the difference between sentience and nonsentience? He’s not here to help humanity.
It boggles the mind that anyone thought monetizing the act of putting people in jail wouldn’t end up being a bad idea somewhere down the line.
@Nikki J You said there was a profit incentive of ignoring the beating? How do they benefit from ignoring the beating? By losing the contract? I called you Stupid, but I didn’t really think you were that stupid. You can’t explain your own claim. You literally can’t explain yourself. Do you brush your teeth?
@Michelle Burkholder he did dummy trump rebuke the policy Ahole
@WILSON! I’ve explained this to you twice already. Also, only a loser likes their own comment — which you clearly did.
@The Terrain Wizard What history books are you reading that say “The United States was founded on slavery”?
Slavery was a PRIVATE venture.
The Transatlantic slave trade was an extension of the Barbary Slave Trade.
The Barbary PIRATES were the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Those who were EXPELLED from HISPANIA – Sephardic HISPANICS who spoke LATIN operated from the Barbary Coast capturing MILLIONS of “SLAVES” (SLAVIC people) and other Christian nations in retaliation for being EXPELLED.
They took these people back to the Barbary Coast then on to the Caribbean.
These Sephardic “Hispanics” from HISPANIA eventually established trading ports all over the World from Jamacia to Goa and Madras, India to New Orleans to Newport Rhode Island and Charleston SC to Brazil and Mexico.
Slave TRADING requires connections with GLOBAL trade
Their names were Aaron Lopez, Moses Cohen Henriques (later Harris) and Hamilton Brown to name a few.
The USA was “founded” between 1776-1789 when the Constitution was ratified on the concept of NATURAL RIGHTS during a time when the DIVINE RIGHTS OF BIRTH prevailed.
It consisted of 13 newly formed states
The rest of the modern US was HISPANIC colonies.
The USA was 12 years old when it entered the Barbary Wars between 1801-1815
Importation of slaves was outlawed in 1802.
The Louisiana Purchase was 1803.
The USA inherited slavery due to the SEPHARDIC pirates of the Caribbean and New Spain.
Between 1789 and 1860 there was a constant cry to abolish slavery
Since the “South” was an established HISPANIC COLONY for over 250.years before the Louisiana Purchase, it was an ESTABLISHED culture that required US settlement before slavery could be addressed.
It took 20+ years before the South would be settled by “Americans”
The 45 years between 1820-1865 slavery did exist but the OVERWHELMING majority of Southern “American” settlers were poor discarded British and Scotts Irish PEASANTS first called “waste people” later “Trash”
The overwhelming majority of American settlers never stepped foot on a plantation and slaves never left the plantations.
Slaves were PRIVATE property. They were NOT government employees or prisoners of the state.
Just in case YOU are the dolt that needs to read a history book.
@Kekistani Patriot it’s sick how you try and rationalize human trafficking.
Love that he wears a purple tie.
Privatization/for profit organizations do not belong in our prison systems, general education system, or our medical care system.
No one should make a dollar off another’s life or well being.
Privatisation of all public services and assets, self-regulation started four decades ago and is a Nobel price winning social economic theory turned ideology, called neoliberalism
@Jaak Savat neoliberalism is absolute cancer
The private prison sector is a type of human trafficking establishment.
A small town can buy a jail fill it up and a lot of the people are in it for next to nothing, and the jailers are the citizens of the town who along with the cops and the Judges Keep their business full of customers!!!
I have been there.
Nothing new under the sun.
More like slavery with extra steps
Its slavery!
“except as a form of punishment,” is a right of the government to own slaves
it is called the bill of rights, not laws
When you operate a for profit prison, it says it right there what their priority is.
Too bad the worshippers of Mango Mussolini and the Biden haters will not understand how these kinds of prisons are a bad thing for the country. They’ll just say something hypocritical or just try to insult the new president when he hasn’t even been in office for month yet.
@Nano
Well yeah. As long as for profit prisons continue to prey mostly on minorities and the poor as far as they’re concerned the system is working.
@Joshua Noble Your assessment is depressingly accurate.
how about a pharmacy?
They found creative ways to up their profits by using cages with hundreds of asylum seekers packed in. Per person charge per night. Then they burdened the foster care system by loosing these peoples children.
Certain industries should NEVER be exposed to profit motives.
@v blackwell saw a documentary, while I was in jail ironically, where two white supremacists(I think) both doing life for at least one murder each, stabbed a black prisoner around 100 times and the guards waited till he was dead and they released him before they came in and did anything. The black guy had been charged with or was suspected of 1 burglary. It was perfectly obvious to me watching, that the guards were happy to let it happen. Made me feel physically sick.
@Serai3
Cool! The false equivalency crowd had arrived!
@Sean Patrick I confess mine, as well. But I found a lot of information on wikipedia that I’ve started reading. If interested, just search for “private prison” and tap on wikipedia’s link for it. There may be better info available too, but I’ve already learned what a lucrative investment private prison stock is. Bank of America, General Electric, Wells Fargo, and many more well known companies have invested. Even Columbia University once held stock, but due to pressure from students, alumni and others?, they sold it.
@TreeRatologist, PhD
Yes, I definitely agree that private prisons are one of the most insane ideas ever considered. What’s next? Outsource the Judicial Department? Courts?
Good thing the Mob-Boss-in-Chief lost our the dystopian nightmare may have become a reality.
That’s how we feel about our free National Health Service in the UK.
Prisons for profit shouldn’t even be a thing.
neither should Presidents. trump family.
Facts!!!
“except as a form of punishment,” is a right of the government to own slaves
it is called the bill of rights, not laws
so they made the government a monopoly on slavery, then privatized it
Privately-run prisons are just a recipe for human-rights violations.
Here in 🇳🇿, we experimented with one prison run by Serco under the previous administration. That turned into such a big scandal of abuses that the contract was not renewed.
No one cares
The people who make money, (which comes out of our pockets), off human suffering on both the public and private sides of prisons need to be fully investigated.
Private Prisons are part of the reason the American justice system is so messed up. It’s a good thing to get it demolished.
President Biden has time for this in WEEK ONE? Impressive given all the problems he’s been given.
Why not? He wrote the 94 crime bill that caused it.
@Donna Adams sadly he did, but like his views on pro-life. He saw the effects and turned quickly saw what was best and from there on he opposed that bill hes also pro-choice! Very cool.. anyway with respect. Do better💙💙
The whole probation system needs to be overhauled as well.
When you add profit to the incarceration of human beings….
Finally….. no 1 should profit from sickness, incarceration, or education.
Yes. Shut down the gang factories. People go in and come out radicalized.
Prisons have ALWAYS been that way; private or otherwise.
Such a strange, welcome feeling almost forgot existed. I government official actually helping the people he swore to help. What a concept!
Yes for profit prisons must go and the corrupted.