Respond to each of the following questions:
- In your opinion, what groups of people benefit most when the prison system is capitalized? What groups or people benefit least?
- In your informed opinion, are private prisons a bargain? Why or why not? Has the general public reached the same conclusion? Why or why not?
- Has your opinion about private prisons changed as a result of this research?
- What problems come with privatizing traditional government services like incarceration, military work, or policing? What benefits?
- What do for-profit prisons say about society's expectations of incarceration and criminal activity? What do they say about society's opinion of inmates?