12-06-2011, 10:14 AM
Oh, Jan, they are, believe me. If they can make enough money, they'll put a prison on every corner if they can get away with it.
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:For some reason, the UK doesn't seem to be on that list.
According to the data here and here, the UK has around 150 prisoners per 100,000 of the population, which would place it at around number 59 in the rankings.
Around one in ten of the UK prison population is a former serviceman, which means there are more former soldiers in prison than serving in Afghanistan.
Comparing the UK rate of c150 with the US rate of c715, I am sure the private prison companies are licking their lips at the potential for huge expansion and huge profit under a British Tory government.
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"Truth is logic, and logic is truth."
"In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely." - Hunter S. Thompson
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." - William S. Burroughs