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The Business Ethics of Incarceration
The Moral Implications of Treating Prisons Like Businesses
Originally published in Reason Papers
This paper offer's a comment on the current moral component of the modern private-prison debate.

This paper offer's a comment on the current moral component of the modern private-prison debate. While several theorists have concluded that public prisons are morally preferable to contracted-out prisons because of the unsavory tendencies for private firms to “profit off of other people's misery,” I contend that the latter may be true but the former does not necessarily follow therefrom.
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