Issue Position: I Oppose Private Prisons

Issue Position

Recently there has been a push in the Granite State to outsource our justice into the hands of large national for-profit corporations. This horribly unethical, and woefully unjust, idea needs to be discarded immediately. For-Profit prisons are mathematically not capable of providing a cost-savings to the taxpayers (assuming the same level of rehabilitation is provided to those in the justice system), and also stand in very murky ethical grounds where they have a financial interest in locking people up as well as keeping people locked up. It's not hard to imagine situations where someone is exonerated or has a medical emergency, but a for-profit prison suppresses efforts that might lead to their release -- since they stand to profit from continued incarceration. The very idea of private prisons is antithetical to everything I believe in, and flies in the face of the very concept of justice itself. I pledge that I will vote against any measures to outsource our justice system.

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