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I wouldn't overlook the money angle either. Privatization, either outright, or in part via service fees for phones, books, commissary, etc, has changed the syst

by tyingq 4y ago

I wouldn't overlook the money angle either. Privatization, either outright, or in part via service fees for phones, books, commissary, etc, has changed the system.

TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
It's mostly money. The penal system is extremely profitable. Slave labour redefined.
- gruez 4y ago
  >It's mostly money. The penal system is extremely profitable. source? Specifically, the claim that it's "mostly" money.
  - formerkrogemp 4y ago
    CoreCivic and Geo both own and operate the majority of prisons in the US.
    - hirvi74 4y ago
      Only ~8% of prisoners are incarcerated in private facilities. https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-in-the-united-states/ https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...
      - formerkrogemp 4y ago
        "Companies own or manage 75% of U.S. detention facilities. Two of the biggest companies, CoreCivic and The GEO Group, are publicly traded. In the correctional system, however, less than 10% of state and federal inmates are in the care of private prisons." https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/why-private-prisons-geo-group-and-corecivic-are-struggling-under-trump.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/why-private-prisons-geo-grou... Well, it seems I need to brush up on some reading then.
- sangnoir 4y ago
  Slave labor continued - the 14th amendment clearly spells it out : "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States[...]"
  - bobmaxup 4y ago
    > the 14th amendment clearly spells The 13th*