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“Don’t do crime, but if you do, I guess keep doing crimes forever because we’re going to make it hard for you to get a real job” isn’t really a compelling strat
by akerl_ 5y ago
“Don’t do crime, but if you do, I guess keep doing crimes forever because we’re going to make it hard for you to get a real job” isn’t really a compelling strategy.
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoThat's the business model of the prison industrial complex.
- akerl_ 5y agoLet’s be clear where the blame sits. The “prison industrial complex” isn’t creating this. Private enterprise is set up to profit from incarceration rates and thus recidivism, but the reason that people can’t get jobs after they finish their sentence is the fault of all of us. Every company that refuses to hire somebody with a record is contributing to the problem, as is every person who looks down on somebody for having been incarcerated.
- lupire 5y agoIf there are fewer jobs than people, some people will not have jobs and theus be tempted into criminal behavior. If there are more jobs than people, felons will be hired.
- akerl_ 5y agoThis is pretty intensely reductive of the actual state of the world. It only works if all people are competing for all jobs, which they are not. To pick a boring example, see the multitude of companies complaining about labor shortages and also the number of felons who are struggling to find jobs.
- lobocinza 5y agoIt's optimized for retention and not for reintegration.