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The pprison industry is very profitable. Justice has nothing to do with it.
by jhuni 14y ago
The pprison industry is very profitable. Justice has nothing to do with it.
- arikrak 14y agoI don't think the prison companies are the ones in charge of prosecution or judging.
- jlgreco 14y agoNo, but the judges who they bribe are certainly involved.
- krichman 14y agoThey're certainly lobbying for more laws and stricter enforcement.
- veidr 14y agoThey aren't in charge of it, per se, but the lobbying by them and the prison workers unions are definitely in large part responsible for how insane it is here, as opposed to literally any other modern democracy. There are other factors too, of course. But the perverse societal incentives of the American "prison-industrial complex" are a powerful (and malignant, in my view) force.