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the US cultural acceptance of "lots of poor and/or not-well-connected people will just go to jail and in some cases be murdered by the state" is one of the weir
by bananapub 2y ago
the US cultural acceptance of "lots of poor and/or not-well-connected people will just go to jail and in some cases be murdered by the state" is one of the weirdest things about the place, especially in opposition to the usual nonsense about freedom and liberty.
- Buttons840 2y agoThis is what corruption looks like, power for the wrong reasons. Jails will make a profit, and charge inmates for the burden of making a phone call (during a time where literally every adult carries a device that can make infinite calls for no additional cost), but somehow preventing inmates from hurting each other is beyond their power.
- alphabettsy 2y ago> but somehow preventing inmates from hurting each other is beyond their power. For many Americans, this does not seem to be a bug rather than a feature. I regularly see comments joking about or often encouraging the physical or sexual assault of inmates.
- bananapub 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#United_States: > In 2018, 8.41% of prisoners in the United States were housed in private prisons > Jails will make a profit hard to imagine that's the biggest issue. it really does seem like a cultural issue where Americans don't have sympathy or empathy for "criminals".