[spoiledtechie]

I would recommend you do some research on this topic. Your giving talking points produced by mainstream talking heads.

When in fact, research points to private prisons being better at dropping incarceration rates through the programs offered at them. Therefore increasing ones chance at correct rehabilitation.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249718665_A_Compara...

[jakelazaroff]

Interesting, literally every single link on the first page of the Google search for "private prison recidivism" appears to say the exact opposite.

- https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2017/may/5/report-says-...

- https://news.wisc.edu/study-finds-private-prisons-keep-inmat...

- https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/how-create-more-humane-pr...

[berdon]

I'm not sure one 20 year old study of 200 inmates from one state is representative of the population.

Besides that, it's inarguable that for-profit entities need profit to exist. You could claim that some for-profit prisons have lower recidivism but a non-profit entity will, on average, have more incentive to help inmates than one who's lifeblood comes from profits.

[cryptoz]

That paper is older than 20 years, and takes place during a short period of time in Florida, from a very small number of private prisons. A lot has changed since then, and the paper makes assumptions that are invalid with the current discussion, specifically the extremely small sample of private prisons (n=2?).

I don't think it's valid to draw concrete conclusions about the current crisis from the study you linked. There are far more variables at play than were studied in the paper, and those variables - such as racism, increasing societal inequality, etc - matter.

Also, reasons cited in that paper for the reduced recidivism are to do with the programs offered by the private prison. Are private prisons in all states / California allowed or incentived to offer similar programs? Do they choose not to?

These things affect the statistics, and drawing strong conclusions from that paper about private prisons in California today may lead you to invalid conclusions.