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| Legal > Criminal Law |
| Written by Eve Winters |
| Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:44 |
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Everything in our lives revolve around two things and they are both physics and Criminal Justice. The reason why criminal justice is a big part of our lives is because a large portion of our taxes go to the correction system. Did you know that corrections is the fastest growing industry in the criminal justice system. If you wanted a guaranteed stock just invest into corrections. There have been hot controversies on whether we should allow the correction system go private or stay public. Why should we allow correctional facilities go private and what would that do for our taxes? If correctional facilities would go private, our taxes would no longer pay for them however they would start using criminals to run private businesses like the ones that take orders from people on the phone for either travel agencies or ordering clothes off the Internet. Nobody knows whether they're giving their credit card number to a convict. The amazing thing is, these convicts would be making only cents on the dollar a day because their wages would mostly go to the private corporation that owns the facility they live in to pay for their living. The question is, do we really want to get rid of that part of taxes so badly that we would be willing to allow a corporation use convicts just like some corporations use people in third world countries. It's a controversial topic however we are in a pretty dire time in our economy perhaps this would be something that would save our economy because then we would not be pouring billions of dollars every year for people like John Doe to live free off the government. The question lies within, do we allow private corporations to own one of the most expensive part of the criminal justice system or do we actually keep it within our economy to pay for these convicts. |
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