From the American republiQan point of view, this is exactly what it's supposed to create: a hellish nightmare of torture into which any law-abiding citizen will be cast as soon as those in power deem it useful to them.

I noted recently there was a "tough on crime" surge in Canada politics - this is what becomes of that.

It starts out with some common sense ideas; murderers and rapists should be punished, etc. And quickly (and - this is key - very quietly) becomes a huge financial drain that is self-perpetuating.

In the Southeast of America a judge was fairly recently convicted of sending underage boys to a private prison in exchange for kickbacks from that prison. He had been doing it for over a decade. And that's just one that made the news.

The American republiQan playbook is being run in your country. (Hi Poland!) Beware.

They got so used to prison being absolute shitholes that saying that people get raped in there is apparently funny.

The same as private universities, private health care, private banks, private (as in capitalism-driven) politics. Some of which are way worse on a national scale than private prisons imo.