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Trying to think what one can do to combat this prison industrial complex cash machine...

saagarjha 8y ago
Try your hardest to not go to jail and if you or a family member does don't contact them? There's no good options…
lotsofpulp 8y ago
There's nothing you can do other than participating in the civic process. Vote, run for elections, campaign for good people, etc.
peteradio 8y ago
Vigilante justice. Jk?
- saagarjha 8y ago
  Sounds like a great way to end up in exactly the situation where you have to deal with this issue but have no way to enact change…
  - ryanlol 8y ago
    How so? There’s so much you can do to harass people within the limits of the law. Just name and shame the individuals developing this kind of software, they deserve much worse but it’s a good start.
    - saagarjha 8y ago
      Vigilante justice will land you in jail. There's not a whole lot you can do from there.
      - ryanlol 8y ago
        Not at all, only very specific kinds of vigilante justice will land you in jail. It is not difficult to hurt people without breaking the law.
- logfromblammo 8y ago
  Seems like if someone just handed out contact information for the owners and management of those prison-service companies to everyone that left a facility, the problem would eventually take care of itself. Ideally, the lawyers would work it out, but if not, the recidivism rate might. I don't feel at all conflicted about the possibility that anyone might get more than what's coming to them. The misery of others should not be a for-profit industry--not for the criminals, and definitely not for the prisons. Keeping prisoners just seems like one of those jobs where no one who actually wants to do it should ever be allowed to.
wonderwonder 8y ago
Stop them from being able to lobby politicians. The only way we allow people to be treated like this is because we allow corporations to legally bribe our elected officials. We also keep voting for those same officials.
- colejohnson66 8y ago
  It’s also because a large portion of the US population wants the officials to be as tough on crime as we are. You need to not just fix the politicians, you need to fix America
  - dzhiurgis 8y ago
    I too noticed that Americans are extremely vengeful and puritan.

Try your hardest to not go to jail and if you or a family member does don't contact them? There's no good options…

There's nothing you can do other than participating in the civic process. Vote, run for elections, campaign for good people, etc.

peteradio 8y ago

Vigilante justice. Jk?

saagarjha 8y ago
Sounds like a great way to end up in exactly the situation where you have to deal with this issue but have no way to enact change…
- ryanlol 8y ago
  How so? There’s so much you can do to harass people within the limits of the law. Just name and shame the individuals developing this kind of software, they deserve much worse but it’s a good start.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    Vigilante justice will land you in jail. There's not a whole lot you can do from there.
    - ryanlol 8y ago
      Not at all, only very specific kinds of vigilante justice will land you in jail. It is not difficult to hurt people without breaking the law.
logfromblammo 8y ago
Seems like if someone just handed out contact information for the owners and management of those prison-service companies to everyone that left a facility, the problem would eventually take care of itself. Ideally, the lawyers would work it out, but if not, the recidivism rate might. I don't feel at all conflicted about the possibility that anyone might get more than what's coming to them. The misery of others should not be a for-profit industry--not for the criminals, and definitely not for the prisons. Keeping prisoners just seems like one of those jobs where no one who actually wants to do it should ever be allowed to.

wonderwonder 8y ago

Stop them from being able to lobby politicians. The only way we allow people to be treated like this is because we allow corporations to legally bribe our elected officials. We also keep voting for those same officials.

colejohnson66 8y ago
It’s also because a large portion of the US population wants the officials to be as tough on crime as we are. You need to not just fix the politicians, you need to fix America
- dzhiurgis 8y ago
  I too noticed that Americans are extremely vengeful and puritan.