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You think it is different in non for profit prisons? Wrong. And they are also making good money with it.

The question is, what is prison supposed to be? Punishment? Reintegration? Deterrence?

Prison is supposed to keep people who are harmful to society away from their victims. Anything else is secondary and should not impinge on prison's functionality of segregating convicts from society.

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