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On the upside... >(The Federal Communications Commission in October voted to cap calling rates and fees, a move that Securus and other industry leaders had fou
by metasean 11y ago
On the upside...
>(The Federal Communications Commission in October voted to cap calling rates and fees, a move that Securus and other industry leaders had fought, claiming the change would have a “devastating effect” on their businesses.)
>Given telecommunications can be lifelines to normality and returning to society a well adjusted and prepared individual...
Sadly, those seem to rarely be goals of our current prison systems.
- rdtsc 11y agoThey are of the same caliber as the private prison system companies, which actively lobby against de-escallating the War On Drugs as it will directly affect their bottom line.
- sdoering 11y agoSocieties that privatize their correction system leading to inmates being raw material for generating profits, are in my eyes not allowed to carry the name 'society' (coming from latin socius = companion or fellow)[0] anymore. They are not fellows who correct and punish, they are slavers, outsourcing slavery for generating tax revenue and private revenue alike. I totally cannot understand any rationale behind a privatization of prisons, as it totally runs contrary to what society should want to get out of a prison system (rehabilitation, correcting wrong behavior, punishment). I know, I might sound harsh, but I really have no idea how a society can want a system like this, that extorts prisoners for privatized gains. [0]: https://translate.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&hl=de&client=tw-ob#la/en/socius https://translate.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&hl=de&client=tw-ob#la...