Michigan doesn't seem to have any private prisons currently
What is the prison work program? Does the prison 'offer out' forced inmate labor? Does the prison hire electricians or used unlicensed forced labour from inmates? Would the prison be able affordable to run if it didn't use forced labor and therefore needs to stay full of free labour to be able to stay operating (ie if the population shrinks you don't have enough free labor to keep the place running 'profitably' and would need to put more funds into running it (you gotta grab a wide net to make sure you catch enough electricians, HVAC guys, pipefitters, etc)? Are the commissary items purchased from special, overpriced 'prison commissary' distribution systems with special ties or from normal vendors? Who runs the phone system, is it a profit center? Who runs the prison 'electronic communication' system and is it a profit center?
I hear this for profit prisons repeatedly endlessly but want to point out only 8% of prisons in the US are for profit that vast majority are public institutions
An exaggeration on my part. At the end of the day it did take an arrest, and two court appearances for the case to be dismissed - despite the difference in pregnancy and looking nothing like the matched photo. It's the same underlying broken mentality of closing a case at all costs, even if the cost is miscarriage of justice.
> I hear this for profit prisons repeatedly endlessly but want to point out only 8% of prisons in the US are for profit that vast majority are public institutions
Not only is that number wrong, you're also ignoring the myriad ways prisoners are monetized. It's not strictly a privatized prisons game.
Like the price of phone calls, mail, and even water. It's all absolutely criminally exploitative and government gets a cut of those private contractor's profits.