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code of conduct put forth by society. In accordance with my value, my standard for the round is
mitigating deontological oppression. According to Kant, treating humans as means to an ends is
immoral which is essentially deontological oppression. Thus, in order to achieve Morality, we
have to reduce this type of oppression.
Link: The plan promotes preservation of jury nullification in the U.S. Criminal Justice System in
order to achieve <<VALUE>> Although, this may sound like the best way to go, whether you
promote or counter jury nullification, the result will still be marginal because the root problem is
the capitalistic motivation behind the Criminal Justice System. Thus, you can never fully achieve
<<VALUE>> unless you reform the CJS which is what Im advocating for.
Impact: Capitalism in the CJS causes decision-makers to make unjust decisions with immoral
ramifications.
Vicky Pelaez. The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of
Slavery?. Global Research, March 31, 2014. El Diario-La Prensa, New York and Global
Research 10 March 2008. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-
states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
What has happened over the last 10 years? Why are there so many prisoners?
[Answer:] The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to lock people
up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders who make money off
prisoners work lobby for longer sentences, in order to expand their workforce. The system
feeds itself, says a study by the Progressive Labor Party, which accuses the prison
industry of being an imitation of Nazi Germany with respect to forced slave labor and
concentration camps.
The prison industry complex is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States
and its investors are on Wall Street. This multimillion-dollar industry has its own trade exhibitions, conventions, websites,
and mail-order/Internet catalogs. It also has direct advertising campaigns, architecture companies, construction companies,
investment houses on Wall Street, plumbing supply companies, food supply companies, armed security, and padded cells in a
large variety of colors.
In addition,
Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration. American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU). May 10 2012. https://www.aclu.org/banking-bondage-private-prisons-and-
mass-incarceration
Today, private prisons are responsible for approximately 6% of state prisoners, 16% of
federal prisoners, and nearly 50% of all immigrants detained by the federal government.
In 2010, the two largest private prison companies alone received nearly $3 billion dollars
in revenue.
Furthermore,
Meteor Blades. Report: Private prison companies boost incarceration rates for profit. Daily
Kos. June 25 2011. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/6/25/988397/-
One way to do that is to make direct, monetary contributions to political campaigns for
elected officials and specific policies.
How much? In the past couple years, the three biggest companies in the private prison
industry have contributed [$7 million to politicians] ($835,514 to federal candidates and $6,092,331 to
state politicians)
One of the premises of Morality as stated in Kants Categorical Imperative is that humans cannot
whatsoever be treated as a means to an end; in other words, they cant be objectified. However,
the current system condones and facilitates this through opportunist intentions and capitalistic
motivations in which prisoners are subjugated to inhumane conditions so that corporations can
profit through payments by government and penal work. Prisoners essentially become slaves
which is outright immoral. In addition, its unjust because lobbying causes unjust implication of
the law in order to increase profits.
C2: CONDITIONS THAT THESE PRISONERS ARE SUBJUGATED TO ARE
INHUMANE
Alice Ollstein. This is How Bad the Health Care is in Private Prisons. Think Progress. April 8
2015. http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/04/08/3643636/prison-nurses-california-threaten-
strike/
Emily Le Coz. Private Prisons Allegedly Put Inmates in Barbaric Conditions. Huffington
Post. July 31 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/private-prison-mississippi-
barbaric-conditions-_n_3362596.html
Beatings, rape, robbery and riots are commonplace, and inmates are denied access to
medication and psychiatric care, the 83-page complaint stated. The privately run prison "is an
extremely dangerous facility operating in a perpetual state of crisis" and inmates' human
rights are violated daily, according to the groups. Some prisoners set fires in desperate
attempts to get medical attention in emergencies, the lawsuit said.
Forcing any person to live in squalid conditions is inhumane and tortuous and consequently
immoral. In fact, Americas CJS is actually a worse form of slavery because prisons have a
proliferating stream of free labor and payment while only having to provide putrid conditions.
Alt: As previously stated, the core issue of the CJS is the capitalism. Thus in order to rectify the
CJS, we have to eliminate this capitalistic motivation from the justice system: All prisons should
thus be government controlled rather than private controlled.
Adrian Smith. Private vs. Public Facilities, Is it Cost Effective and Safe? Corrections. June 11
2012. http://www.corrections.com/news/article/30903-private-vs-public-facilities-is-it-cost-
effective-and-safe-
In addition,
Who Benefits When a Private Prison Comes to Town? NPR. November 5 2011.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/05/142058047/who-benefits-when-a-private-prison-comes-to-
town