Interesting article from the Hill below on the Trump Administration doing away with another Obama Executive Order on forbidding the federal government from employing the services of Private Prisons.
From a public services standpoint, private organizations that cater to public needs should be not for profit. That goes for schools, medical facilities, environmental agencies, child services, law and military enforcement, and other organizations that serve the public good.
Having private organizations that serve the public according to rules governing competition and the profit motive may yield short term efficient and qualitative results but will eventually devolve into money pinching apparatus that pay more attention to the bottom line than to the communities they are supposed to serve.
Only organizations that do not have a profit motive should be allowed to serve the public good. That does not mean inefficiencies and corruption should be allowed in such organizations. That only arouses the drives of the people who want to privatize everything. Only well run not for profit entities should be allowed the mission to guide public policy.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320915-trump-admin-rescinds-plan-to-reduce-private-prisons
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