For-profit prisons in the United States should be banned.

Let me define a Private Prison: Private prisons Prison facilities run by private prison corporations whose services and beds are contracted out by state governments or the Federal Bureau of Prisons. or can be defined as "A private prison or for-profit prison is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies typically enter into contractual agreements with governments that commit prisoners and then pay a per diem or monthly rate for each prisoner in the facility. The privatization of prisons refers both to the takeover of existing public facilities as well as the building and operation of new and additional prisons by for-profit companies." The main problem with profit and non-profit prisons are : One of the main differences between publicly run and privately run prisons in the U.S. is the level of violence that occurs. Taking a look at the four privately run prisons in the state of Mississippi as an example, the assault rate was three times higher than that of state-run prisons. In this 1st argument will be that "Private prisoner's have to much freedom, thus causing more violence" Private Prisoner's have allot more freedom then a regular prison in a non private prison. Here are just a few examples: The ACLU recently filed a lawsuit against the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF), a privately run prison, on behalf of the inmates. According to this lawsuit, the number of abuses include rampant rapes, prisoners placed in poorly supervised solitary confinement for months at a time, stabbings, beatings, and other acts of violence occurring on a regular basis (whether the guards are involved or turning a blind eye). In a non- profit prisons, there is much more protections, such as video camera's and having security guard's on each level patrolling and keeping an eye out for the inmates making sure peace is maintained. While in a regular prison, there is much more security. There are 4 types of securities. Maximum Security, Close Security, Medium Security and Minimum security. As you can tell there is much more protection in a non-profit. Another example: Juveniles are put in cells with adults, where they are oftentimes sexually (or otherwise) assaulted. Malnourishment and chronic hunger are also reported as facts of life at the EMCF. At least one mentally ill prisoner was maced so severely that after the officers finally went in to his cell (after waiting nearly 20 minutes), he was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. Yet medical staff still continued to document his status in their daily records as being in 'good health and mood' for several days after his death. Now, prison's aren't suppose to be a happy go-lucky place, but you should be able to have you're medical conditions taken care of and you're safety should be put in perspective. This is why we have a Juvenile hall, to put kids whom are under the age of 18 in. It's very unsafe to put them with adult's whom have committed worse crimes then they have, then these kids get taken advantage of. This is a huge violation to the 4th amendment when it states that "No person shall be deprived of life" which in this case, inmates are being deprived by non having their illnesses' taken care of. I will not expand anymore on this, I think you get the point. I look forward to con's argument! Sources used: http://www.bjs.gov... http://www.outsiderclub.com... http://prison.laws.com... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://jonathanturley.org...