[aoeuasdf1]

Yeah, you would think the tax dollars spent on prisons vastly outweigh the extra dough it would take to actually try everyone who goes through them.

Plus, the innocent who aren't jailed pay taxes and do productive things for society.

This is all ignoring the human cost of the equation.

[colejohnson66]

For profit prisons and the politicians paid off by them have an incentive to keep plea bargains because money.

[aoeuasdf1]

Yep. Another reason to disallow private prisons.