On Aug 23, 2010, at 2:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Riiiiight ... prisoners have NEVER escaped from government run corrections > facilities. >
No they have, but I'm constantly lectured by people such as yourself on how horribly inefficient. lazy, corrupt and incompetent government agencies and employee are, and how much better private companies are at everything. It is, after all, the impetus towards privatizing everything under the sun, including prisons. The deficiencies revealed in the report make it apparent that we're staggeringly lucky that these are the only people to have escaped from this facility (that anyone knows about...apparently they're not even able to properly do a headcount...) What it does is expose the bottom-line orientation of private enterprise for *anything*. This is perfectly fine if you're making door hinges, considerably less so if you're guarding murderers. This private enterprise is run with the primary goal of maximizing revenue; this is done through what are euphemistically called 'efficiencies'; in a fixed facility such as a prison, this is mainly accomplished by deferring (or forgoing entirely) expensive maintenance, and reducing personnel costs. The latter is accomplished by paying the workers less, meaning you invariably get less experienced and/or incompetent guards. (The other main way private prisons generate revenue, directly competing with civilian private businesses while utilizing what amounts to slave labor, is another subject for debate, but not germane to this one). -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
