商業與科技
沒人坐牢也要賠？美國私營監獄的生意經
Empty Beds, Big Profits: The Business of US Private Prisons
This lesson explores the controversial world of private prisons in the United States, focusing on how companies lock governments into minimum occupancy contracts. We will examine the ethics of treating incarceration as a business and look at how these corporate facilities utilize cheap prison labor to keep their operations running.
課程預覽
Inside the Corporate Cell
10 MINIn the United States, keeping people in prison has become a very big business. Private companies run many prisons across the country to make money. To protect their profits, these companies use a special rule in their contracts. This rule is called a lock-in quota. It says that the government must keep a certain percentage of prison beds full all the time.
Many people do not agree with this business model. They say that when a state must keep prisons full, the government has no reason to reduce crime or help prisoners change. Instead of making communities safer, the system focuses on keeping people locked up. Also, to save money, these private prisons often use cheap prison labor. They pay prisoners only a few cents per hour to make things, cook food, or do laundry.
On the other hand, some people believe that private prisons are good. They say these companies can build prisons faster and run them more cheaply than the government. However, as more people learn about this, they are asking an important question: is it right for companies to make a profit from locking up human beings?
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