Ep. 662 - Government prisons ARE also FOR-PROFIT

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today is one of those days where I need to teach us a very simple, but important lesson. Somewhere along the way, we were taught that we have 2 types of jails and prisons: For-profit ones and government-owned jails and prisons.

But this is ALL WRONG.

In fact, an upcoming study will tell us that government prisons are actually creating exponentially more profit for corporations and communities than for-profit prisons.

The business model may be slightly different, but the primary profit motive is the same for both institutions. And we need to drastically adjust our language around for-profit prisons, which are indeed gross, because ALL prisons are enriching white people and white power across the country.

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0:21.1	Hey everybody, today is one of those days where I need to put my teacher hat on and I need
0:25.9	to teach you something very, very important.
0:30.2	We talk about prisons as for-profit prisons and government prisons.
0:38.4	But that's really a lie.
0:40.2	Yes, there are prisons that are built almost exclusively for profit.
0:47.2	But what we're learning is that government prisons literally generate billions of dollars
0:55.4	of profit for so many different companies and industries and communities that the line
1:03.8	between government prisons and for-profit prisons is not a clear demarcation.
1:10.8	In a lot of ways, they're one and the same and we need to stop talking about the end of for-profit
1:18.8	prisons as if government prisons aren't reaping billions of dollars of profit.
1:26.4	They are both for-profit prisons.
1:29.6	Let me unpack and explain it.
1:31.2	This is Sean King and you are listening to-
1:34.4	The Breakdown.
1:38.4	The Breakdown.
1:40.4	The Breakdown.
1:52.5	As many of you may know, my first job out of Morehouse was actually as a middle school
1:58.8	and high school history and civics teacher and I was trained as a teacher and many of my
2:08.6	dear friends to this day went through the Benjamin May's teacher scholar program with me at Morehouse
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