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That was before the for profit prison industry became a cancer that incentivized keeping non-violent people in prison.
by godzillabrennus 10y ago
That was before the for profit prison industry became a cancer that incentivized keeping non-violent people in prison.
- e40 10y agoI think that's most of it, but I also think there's been some weird shift in the way police and prosecutors behave over the last decade. Much has been written how we now effectively have debtor's prisons. People are fined and imprisoned because they can't pay the fines. The crazy part for me is that this has all happened while the crime rate has been steadily going down, so there's not even a justification for it (from a crime standpoint).