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Isn't it? Companies that probably lobby for stricter and longer sentences, looking at a populated state as a "market," with caged human beings as their product
by lovehashbrowns 7y ago
Isn't it? Companies that probably lobby for stricter and longer sentences, looking at a populated state as a "market,"
with caged human beings as their product. It's the most absurd concept to me, and it's even more disgusting when it's put in such an innocent manner. "Private prison companies used to view California as one of their fastest-growing markets." It just gets more disgusting the more you look into it, and the statistics around incarceration in the US.
- tenkabuto 7y agoJust to throw it out there: the idea isn't absurd; it's evil.
- lovehashbrowns 7y agoYou're completely right on that. Absolutely evil.
- bakuninsbart 7y agoIt is not just that the states are paying them to house convicts (or people accused of a crime), they can even use these people to do jobs for basically no wage. These companies are in the business of slave labor.