The Shocking Way Private Prisons Make Money | Adam Ruins Everything

[Music] Adam you got me into this no you get me out I promise I have someone working on it but in the meantime this is a great opportunity to explain why our nation's prison system is a failure on every level so you know a lot about prisons I bet you watch a lot of PBS documentaries huh I guess you're right I do like first-hand knowledge Oh maybe you could help me do this episode sure nothing better to do whoa do you have magic TV powers like Adam no what I got a lot of favors early lunch today early lunch today everyone America's prison system is a total mess whatever purpose you think it serves it ain't doing it well the point of prison is to reduce crime definitely not doing that there are 2.2 million people incarcerated in the US ten times more than 50 years ago 2 million is more than the population of some states welcome to mass incarceration Oh juice it's our primary export shizz our secondary export God hey that's contraband but despite this massive increase in the prison population a study conducted by the NYU School of Law found that the effect on the crime rate has been essentially zero zero then why do we lock so many people up well I can't speak for all prisons but this one is here to make money leak money give me someone is profiting from all this yep these guys are it all started in the tough-on-crime 80s when the war on drugs mint state and federal prisons were bursting at the scene so many prisoners what do we do that corporate America handle your prisons we'll take care of everything save you a few bucks and skim a little off the top what business is running prisons that sounds a little fishy just kidding I mean hey if it saves money right and so the Corrections Corporation of America or CCA was born okay hold on you can't just sell prisons like their cars or real estate or hamburgers now why don't you tell that to Tom Beasley the co-founder of CCA who once said you just sell prisons like you were selling cars or real estate or hamburgers number seven with extra solitary cells electric fencing small onion registers and Supermax ed and they rake in a ton of scratch last year CCA took in 1.7 billion dollars so good it's criminal well you know maybe it's okay because they're saving the taxpayer money sorry the sales pitch was wrong the data shows that private prisons cost the taxpayers just as much as regular prisons and today nearly one-fifth of federal prisoners are held in a for-profit facility okay oh yeah graffiti that's an infraction a beautiful one are you Banksy oh my gosh I've already gotten a fraction let's get out a lot of these oh yeah that's not a coincidence one study showed that private prisons dole out twice as many infractions as government prison having enough infractions that's an infraction these penalties can left in your sentence which arts a company even more cash Oh so the more people that are in prison the more money they make pool that's dirty yep that's why private prisons sneak occupancy clauses into their contracts which actually requires States to keep prisons full last year a private prison in Arizona didn't make their 97 percent capacity quota so the state government had to pay them a three million dollar fine fines like that incentivize cash-strapped States to keep people in prison as long as possible your parole forms are an order and you've been a model prisoner so we're going to lock you back up we really can't afford to pay another fine that's reprehensible look not all prisons are private prisons but this one is so know its purpose isn't to stop crimes it's the dolla dolla bills y'all can't believe all this has been happening and I didn't even know I mean I've never thought about prison like at all hey pulling back the curtain on our disturbing business practices that's an infraction and that makes three infractions you're gonna go to solitary okay that doesn't sound so bad you know peace and quiet see some meds Nene no solitary confinement is a cruel and inhumane punishment that has no place in modern society wait what I will tell you about it after you get settled in the hole hey guys Adam here if you like that be sure to watch new episodes of Adam ruins everything every Tuesday at 10:00 on truTV

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Length: 4min 48sec (288 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 23 2016