Talk:Private prison/Archives/2014

In Fiction, revisited
Works like Death Race 2000 and Deadman Wonderland clearly depict private prisons as places of uncontrollable suffering and cruelty far beyond what is allowed by the federal government. It seems to me that these works are set in private prisons specifically because those are the places where such practices are less implausible, but including them in this article only serves to offer emotional justification to anti-privatization sentiments. This is clearly not NPOV and it does not add to obtaining an understanding of private prisons. DLGrif (talk) 16:56, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll delete the section per your response and that of the next poster. Activist (talk) 16:06, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I see that Harizitoh9 has already deleted the section, a week ago. Thanks for your input. Activist (talk) 16:15, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Feedback requested: Delete "in fiction" section?
I am unable to think of any reason this section should remain, particularly the list of obscure movies. There's plenty of actual data that would be far more useful in contributing to an understanding of the industry and the issues involved. Activist (talk) 23:15, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * hey, hello Activist! I'd agree with that assessment.  --Lockley (talk) 22:00, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll delete the section per your response and that of the prior poster. Activist (talk) 16:08, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I see that Harizitoh9 has already deleted the section, a week ago. Thanks for your input. Activist (talk) 16:17, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Undoing massive revert - rationale
The revert by Capitalismojo preserved prior errors in spelling, timeline, etc., that had been corrected but which that editor restored. The massive edit eliminated substantial well-sourced details of a "poster child" example for the externalization of costs, which go to the heart of cost comparisons between public and for-profit institutions, dealt with elsewhere in the article. There were no inaccuracies in the deleted text. Although the sourced data eliminated a mention of costs of "over a million dollars" I can't imagine that the costs of the nationwide search, apprehension, subsequent legal proceedings including a five-month federal capital trial, current and future incarceration of the escapees and accomplices in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and eventually the Federal Bureau of Prisons, will be less than six or seven million dollars. The majority of the edits to which Capitalismojo reverted were made by me, over a period of some time. The stated reason for the massive deletion, that the prior form was "better," needs far more justification and foundation than simply that personal opinion. Activist (talk) 22:23, 2 March 2014 (UTC)


 * The edit contains POV additions. Truly impressive POV. The article was better before the additions. Try adding it back bit by bit. Capitalismojo (talk) 23:19, 2 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Try commenting on it, bit by bit, and stop restoring errors. Activist (talk) 07:06, 3 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for all your work. Read half your revisions and am comfortable with them. I'll see if I can find the "who," and the "directly" in the ALEC reference, and read the rest of your changes. I looked yesterday at some of the changes you made to the ALEC page and your work on it was hugely helpful and comprehensive. Activist (talk) 16:48, 3 March 2014 (UTC)