In his novel Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens described “Dotheboys Hall,” a for-profit home for orphaned boys located in Yorkshire. The institution was run by a Mr. Squeers, who tried to squeeze out as much profit as he could by not heating the sleeping quarters and skimping on boys’ food.
I thought of that today when I read that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had rescinded the Obama plan to phase out federal for-profit prisons. These prisons are more violent and save tax payers very little, if any, money.
Somebody, however, will be making a profit, and that is what the Trump kleptocracy seems to be about.
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