> people duly convicted of crimes lose many of their civil rights. This is not new, and there's nothing wrong with it per se. The wrong part is when you connec

> people duly convicted of crimes lose many of their civil rights. This is not new, and there's nothing wrong with it per se. The wrong part is when you connect "X loses many of their civil rights" to "Y makes a greater profit", and now Y has a lot of money and an incentive to spend a fraction of it on lobbying for legislative changes that will send even more people to prison... which means even more money for lobbying, etc. A few iterations of this feedback loop and you get a system which routinely sends people to prison for trivial things, which routinely sends innocent people to prison, heck even a system where the innocent people are officially advised to "confess" and accept a plea bargain rather than insist on their rights and risk 10x greater penalty if they are falsely convicted.