But they also have told me why this happens.īut first to the person who says 5 yrs is a harsh sentence for drugs and that they don’t believe this story or he had a large quantity. I do believe this because i know several people this has happened to. That’s giving states incentive to trump up charges, plant drugs on innocent people, and deny probation to inmates who have demonstrated good behavior and actual rehabilitation.
That means that if states fails to meet that minimum then they will be fined by the private prison. It’s not enough to just say “stay out of prison, folks!” The private prison system puts pressure on states to keep feeding them inmates by setting mandatory minimum inmate levels in their contracts with states. There are stories of female inmates being denied proper after care following surgery and nothing but sugar packets being used to “disinfect,” their surgery wounds.
There are stories of inmates having teeth removed unnecessarily or because they were denied care until it was necessary. Read some writing from American prisoners and I guarantee that you will be horrified. Unless we start doing something about it though every single one of us is complicit in the rape, assault, medical abuse, and murder that happens in our prisons. We all know that the conditions in our prison system are morally reprehensible, and so many policies are relics of a racist and classist past.