What's cruel about a warm, clean bed with 3 meals a day and clean clothes? The modern carceral system is a cruelty engine designed to perpetuate a state of cyc

What's cruel about a warm, clean bed with 3 meals a day and clean clothes? The modern carceral system is a cruelty engine designed to perpetuate a state of cyclic incarceration for the poor, to the enrichment of those who own for-profit prisons. The idea that anyone could defend the state of the modern prison system in America is mind-boggling. Prison does technically feed and house people, and does so at a cost an order of magnitude higher than individual cities simply doing so at their own cost. This money goes to lobbyists who advocate for three-strikes-style laws to increase the prison population, and to line the pockets of prison owners and the politicians they pay. The imprisoned are without liberty or the opportunity to pursue happiness, though they are still technically alive, but only because if they were dead they would not generate revenue.