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As banks divest from private prisons (which hold ~8% of all ppl in prison), my understanding is that they seem quite interested in underwriting, say, the bond issue that NYC’s new ~$10B jail plan requires.

Publics are where the real money is.

vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Is this paragraph about the private prison firm’s new D1A PR push, or public CO unions and DOC officials?

Every problem w the privates exists in the publics, just at vaster scale.

And our focus on privates actively distracts ppl from this point.
Do you know what else is a multi-billion dollar industry that doesn’t have the best interest of those in prison at its heart?

The public prisons, which hold 92% of all people in prison.

Who, again, are effectively hiding behind the outrage over privates.
Prisons are generally bad. We should have far fewer of them.

Full stop.

The focus on privates often frames the publics as better, and thus more... acceptable.

This piece does. The public may have been better—many are not!!—but... it’s still bad. Very bad.
This is my drum. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

And I plan to beat it long past the point of annoying, until its best finally gets lodged in our policy subconscious.
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