Investment in prisons and prisoners – between reality and hope
Eslam Elgingihy
Public - Faculty of Law - Alexandria
Abstract
The optimal investment for anyone interested in investing lies in the risks faced by the investor, the smaller the risk, the greater the investment limit and the greater the expansion. When prisons are mentioned, everyone looks at the same thing: the punitive institution that shelters the convicts. This view is highly acceptable, but with the tremendous development of the human mind, with the availability of enormous technology, and with man's constant eagerness to exploit everything that can be exploited to make money and develop himself, punitive institutions have come from another point of view in some States, and some investors. Some felt that punitive institutions and their individuals, land, buildings, devices and machines should be best exploited and invested best, by putting them on the market for specific controls under state supervision. Not only that, but also by exploiting prisoners as a vacant labour force with the energy to be fully discharged, there is no concern other than work, no search for another job, no support for anyone but themselves, but an attempt to prove oneself. This is of great importance to some investors, especially in the United States of America and some European countries. This can be found in Egypt and some Arab countries, but from another perspective, here is the talk of alternatives to the negative penalties of freedom applied by some countries, by employing the convicts. But talk here about a private prison sector, so that the investor can build a private prison containing factories and special workshops, through which he exploits the prisoners who are transferred to him by the competent authority, in exchange for a periodic amount of money paid by the state to this investor. The talk here is, of course, far from the high-risk criminals sentenced to the most severe punishments, such as execution, but the talk here beats for those convicted of unusual criminals on the one hand, who have committed minor crimes that do not totally harm public security, public health and public tranquillity. All of this is a small amount of fruit in some countries, so that prisoners go out to work in designated factories and are paid financial benefits that compensate their families. But the danger lies in turning this into enslavement of the prisoner, as in the Chinese system known as "Lau Jae", where the prisoner's work and production in their view is part of punishment and not part of reform, not worth paying but paying to run the prison or others. Investment in the prison sector is in the human, material and moral potential, the most important of which is the operation of a number of developed model corrections, with specialized training in prisons in performance efficiency, increased efficiency of workers, and the State has a major role in creating this investment environment, as well as the media playing a major role in improving the mental image of security organizations by working to change misconceptions about the nature of their work, in addition to clarifying their tasks, working mechanisms and constructive assistance in increasing investment in them. Considering U.S. experiments in the allocation of prisons, specifically in Texas, which has widely applied the experiment on the basis that it offers the most efficient alternative to the government system. That experience assumes that private prisons bring some income and jobs to the cities they host, but the experience has also been marred by many flaws and criticisms. This is what I will put forward in that research in some detail. All this has led some to say that the investor soon has to choose between buying a real estate unit in a luxury hotel housing tourists in a picturesque natural area, or a cell in a private prison with dangerous prisoners. The decision depends on the returns that increase their capital in cases of luxury assets and increase their liquidity and periodic returns in prison cases, and ultimately the choice is for the investor.
Keywords
".Keywords: "Investor - Correctional Institutions - Punitive Institutions - Labour - Production - Prisons - Prisoners.
