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Wild accusation: Follow the money. There are a lot of people making a lot of money off of private prisons, generally in red states.
by mumblemumble 6y ago
Wild accusation:
Follow the money. There are a lot of people making a lot of money off of private prisons, generally in red states.
- claudeganon 6y agoAlcohol manufactures have also dumped massive amounts of money in lobbying against marijuana decriminalization because they don't want the competition.
- itronitron 6y agoAnd before that they went after Absinthe >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe#History Absinthe makes you crazy and criminal, provokes epilepsy and tuberculosis, and has killed thousands of French people. It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman, and a degenerate of the infant, it disorganizes and ruins the family and menaces the future of the country.
- ac29 6y agoPrivate prisons held only 8.2% of inmates in 2017, with many states having zero use at all. Looking at the map, it doesn't appear there is much of a divide between red and blue states in terms of likelihood to use private prisons, or the percentage of prisoners held in them. https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-united-states/ https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...