The Lion's Pride Volume 11 (Winter 2019) | Page 15

private prisons. Thus, private prisons need to stop abusing their power
over their prisoners, stop safety and security issues, and not gain revenue
from increasing incarceration rates. Sadly, many owners of private
prisons will abuse their power for their own gain and the prisoners’ loss.
That is why, instead of allowing private prisons to exist, public prisons
should improve upon themselves to be able to lower re-offense rates by
themselves and to offer everything a smaller-scale private prison could.
This way, there is no need for private prisons, and nobody can make
money off of the suffering of prisoners.