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But think of all the money that the private prisons lose. Won't people think of the corporations that require crime to survive?
If we treated corporate crime even half as seriously as drug offenses, we'd have plenty of prisoners to satisfy those corporations' needs. It's win/win!
But you can't put companies in prison....
Ah, but you can put executives in prison!
Just putting it out there that when Bulgaria made executives personally liable for prison time if their company committed tax evasion, tax collection went up by 15%.
Suddenly executives we're a lot more concerned with whether their books were correct.
I mean, they are supposedly paid gor all the extra responsibilities they have to shoulder.
shareholders. or owners if it's a private company.
Why not? They're "people" after all, at least according to my government.
Not with that attitude!
I think the main problem is that some countries have private prisons. Luckily, I live in a sane country where prisons are public.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong with privately owned prison system...
This can be offset by increasing penalties and enforcement of financial crimes by corporations and the wealthy.