Unethical Profiteering Private Prisons - 942 Words

Milton Carbajal Professor Flavia Ruzi English 1B 20 January, 2015 Unethical Profiteering: Private Prisons’ Lack of Result Privately owned prisons are prisons operated by private entities for profit. They can be owned by individuals or companies and earn money through unethical practices. These prisons are supposed to cut cost, which they do by providing dangerous living conditions, submitting workers (both convicts and prison employees) to unethical work conditions, understaffing, and underpaying (Blesset 9). By cutting cost owners of theses prisons thrive financially from the imprisonment of criminals which is unethical. By understaffing prisons, owners save a significant amount of money because of fewer salaries, benefits, training fees, equipment, etc. Less workers puts extra stress on the prison guards who are assigned workloads usually handed to multiple guard (Blesset 24). This creates the possibility of more prison crimes involving both staff and prisoners (Benjamin 98). Guards faced with psychological and physical trauma due to stabbings or other violent crimes may behave more aggressively toward prisoners. This could create a cycle of aggression that harms all people involved with prisons. Privately owned prisons are equally (if not more) susceptible to this type of aggressive environment (Horent and Taylor 42). The lack of safety in these prison will make any logical person wonder why there is not more money inputted into safety. The answer is simply to increaseShow MoreRelatedThe Growing Problem of White Collar Crimes in India19963 Words   |  80 PagesThe Problem if white collar crime is very serious in India. Business communities of this country of large and small merchants are basically dishonest in most. Nowhere in the world businessmen get rich so quickly as they do in India. Harding, profiteering and black marketing of essential commodities by traders has become a chronic problem for the Government. The Santhanam committee Report in its findings gave a vivid picture of white collar crimes committed by persons of respectability such as