Erstellt am: 21. 2. 2015 - 10:53 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Parole for Profit
American's are proud of their rights and freedoms. Rights and freedoms that only they enjoy. Rights and freedoms that parts of the world hate them for. Apparently.
one of those rights is the right to make money. Ok, that right isn't really anchored in any particularly part of the constitution, or at least, not that explicitly, but it's one that many see as a prime difference between the U.S. and the godless communists of Europe.
It's one of those rights that seems to inspire amazing creativity on the other side of the pond. Everyone spends a lot of energy coming up with new ways to make money, discovering new services to provide, new goodies to get sold, or even how to make money from people who don't actually have any.
A very special niche market indeed.
So how do you make money from people who don't have any? You privatize parole. Parole is what people are sentenced to instead of prison. I guess it would be like bewährung.
When I was in the States, parole boards were part of the criminal justice system and as such, non-profit beauracracies. But that was ages ago. The winds of change have blown in a much more efficient and lucrative new form of parole. Private parole companies now serve the public in some southern states. And by serving, I mean charge service fees.
It's like the opposite of a get out of jail free card from Monopoly.