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Prisons are a racket. I strongly suspect that regulatory and legislative capture are at play, and that this explains why the US has the (frankly, crazy) incarce
by hkt 5y ago
Prisons are a racket. I strongly suspect that regulatory and legislative capture are at play, and that this explains why the US has the (frankly, crazy) incarceration rates it has.
- missedthecue 5y agoHalf of all lobbying money raised to oppose cannabis legalization is from correctional workers unions. https://theintercept.com/2016/05/18/ca-marijuana-measure/ https://theintercept.com/2016/05/18/ca-marijuana-measure/
- rsj_hn 5y agoHold on there. The accurate statement is: "Roughly half of all the money raised to oppose one specific ballot initiative was from groups associated with police and prisons". Groups "associated with police and prisons" runs that gamut from thinks tanks that adopt a pro-police stance and obtain money from police unions to former law enforcement officials and anything in between. The article goes on to say that the Teamsters Union and Hospital Workers also opposed the initiative.