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Another growth industry suffers: the one based on incarcerating human beings for profit.
Green Rock, one of 44 state prisons in Virginia, is in Chatham in Pittsylvania County. Opened in 2007, it houses roughly 970 inmates, all of them from Pennsylvania. No other Virginia state prison has Pennsylvania offenders.
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“The transfer of the Pennsylvania inmates from Virginia will place the department in a difficult financial situation,” Clarke wrote. “The revenue from out of state inmates not only pays for the operation of Green Rock, it also provides funding to other inmate beds.”
Adding a profit motive to imprisoning persons skews the balance away from justice towards incarceration.
Creating prisoners for pay must be ended.
