Name: 亞當殺風景：私人監獄的驚人賺錢法 (Adam Ruins Everything - The Shocking Way Private Prisons Make Money)
Uploaded: 2017-01-22T02:25:57.000Z
Duration: 4 min 41 s

我向你保證，我已經請某人著手處理了。

But in the meantime, this is a great opportunity to explain why our nation's prison system is a failure on every level.

但同時，這是個好機會來解釋為什麼我們國家的監獄制度在每個層面來說都是失敗的。

I bet you watch a lot   of PBS documentaries, huh?

我猜你肯定看了很多美國公共電視的紀錄片，哼？

Ooh, maybe you could help me do this episode?

噢，或許你可以幫我主持這集？

當然，沒有什麼比這更好的了。

你像Adam一樣有神奇的電視魔力嗎？

沒有，但我可是有很多人幫忙呢。

America's prison system    is a total mess.

美國的監獄系統根本是一團糟。

Whatever purpose you think  it serves, it ain't doing it.

不管你認為它是為了哪種目的而生的，它都不是。

Well, the point of prison    is to reduce crime.

這個嘛，監獄的重點是去減少犯罪。

There are  2.2 million people incarcerated in the U.S.,

美國目前有220萬人被關在監獄裡，

Two million is more than the population of some states.

兩百萬人可是多過某些州的人口數了。

Welcome to Mass-Incarceration-   Achusetts.

But despite  this massive increase in the prison population,

但儘管監獄人口大幅度的增加，

a study conducted    by the NYU School of Law

一項由紐約大學法學系所進行的研究

found that the effect    on the crime rate has been essentially zero.

發現監獄對犯罪率的影響基本上為零。

Zero? Then why do we lock    so many people up?

零？那為什麼我們關了這麼多人？

嗯，我無法替所有的囚犯發言，

You mean someone is profiting from all this?

你指某人正從這所有的東西獲益？

It all started in the "tough on crime" '80s,

這一切都起於1980年的「掃蕩犯罪時期」，

when the war on drugs meant state and federal prisons were bursting at the seams.

當時向毒品宣戰使得州監獄與聯邦監獄擠得水洩不通。

如此多的囚犯？我們該怎麼辦？

Let corporate America    handle your prisons.

讓美國公司來處理你們的囚犯吧。

Save you a few bucks and skim a little    off the top.

省下你一些錢而且能讓你抽油水喔。

我是指，嘿，如果這能省錢，對吧？

And so the Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA, was born.

如此一來美國矯正公司，或稱CCA就誕生了。

Okay, hold on.   You can't just sell prisons like they're cars or real estate  or hamburgers.

等一下。你不能把囚犯當作是車子或是不動產或漢堡一樣將它們賣掉。

Hmph! Then why don't you    tell that to Tom Beasley。

哼！那為什麼你不跟Tom Beasley說呢。

the co-founder of CCA    who once said..."YOU JUST SELL PRISONS LIKE YOU WERE SELLING CARS, OR REAL ESTATE, OR  HAMBURGERS."

身為CCA的聯合創辦人他曾說過：「賣監獄就像是你在賣車或是賣不動產或漢堡一樣。」

I'll have a number seven   with extra solitary cells,

我要一個七號餐加額外禁閉房，

呃，你知道，或許這樣沒關係。

Because they're saving the taxpayer money.

抱歉！這樣的行銷法可是錯的喔

The data shows that private prisons cost the taxpayers   just as much as regular prisons.

資料指出私人監獄讓納稅人花的錢其實跟一般監獄一樣多。

And today, nearly one-fifth  of federal prisoners are held    in a for-profit facility.

時至今日，將近五分之一的聯邦囚犯是被關在營利機構中。

好美的一幅作品，你是Banksy(英國塗鴉藝術家)嗎？

Oh, my gosh, I already got an infraction.

我的老天爺，我居然收到罰單了。

One study showed  that private prisons dole out twice as many   infractions as government prisons.

一項研究指出私人監獄發出比政府監獄兩倍多的發單。

These penalties   can lengthen your sentence,

這甚至使得公司能賺更多現金。

Oh, so the more people   that are in prison,

Yep, that's why private prisons sneak occupancy clauses into their contracts,

沒錯，這也是為什麼私人監獄偷偷將進駐條款加到它們的合約中，

which actually require states to keep prisons full.

這要求州政府得維持私人監獄是滿的。

Last year, a private prison   in Arizona didn't make    their 97% capacity quota,

去年一個在亞里桑納州的監獄沒有達到97%容納額度，

so the state government had to pay them a $3 million fine.

所以州政府必須付給他們300百萬的罰款。

Fines like that incentivize cash-strapped states to keep people in prison as long as possible.

罰款變相鼓勵經濟拮据的州政府盡可能將他們的囚犯關越久越好。

Your parole forms    are in order and you've been    a model prisoner,

你的假釋單正在流程當中而且你也是個模範囚犯。

We really can't afford   to pay another fine.

Look, not all prisons  are private prisons,

聽著，不是每個監獄都是私人監獄，

I can't believe all this has been happening and I didn't even know.

我不敢相信居然發生這種事情而且我以前都不知道。

I mean, I never thought  about prison, like, at all.

我是指，我從來沒想過關於監獄的這些事情。

Hey, pulling back the curtain on our disturbing   business practices,

嘿，把我們讓人不安的商業手法揭露在陽光底下，