Private Prisons DON'T Cause Overcrowded Prisons
Channel: Common Sense Soapbox
Date: 2023-06-13

On this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, the crew visits Ron in prison. Ron blabbers about the profit motive of private prisons and their runaway exploitation. Seamus calmly explains that private prisons are hardly the main cause of America’s mass incarceration issues.
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CREDITS: 
Written by Sean W. Malone, Seamus Coughlin, and Lou Perez
Animated by Seamus Coughlin
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
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LINKS:
https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/private-prisons-in-the-united-states/
https://fee.org/articles/4-things-you-should-know-about-mass-incarceration
https://fee.org/articles/how-to-fix-private-prisons/
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/18/ca-marijuana-measure/
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/14/police-unions-prison-reform/
https://reason.com/2015/06/02/are-for-profit-prisons-or-public-unions/