Human lives are nothing but a form of currency to the oligarchs.
The US is a giant slave pen ran by half a dozen megacorps.
Thats all it's been since Reagan.
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Sir, proper nomenclature is "the plantation" and vast majority of us are field *****
And it has been this way all of history except for generic whites after world war 2 but after they betrayed owner class during civil rights, daddy turned them back in the field variety slave.
It was like that before too, theres just less content about it.
PLEASE put state or federal officials in the beds
Owners too 🐸
Always remember, kids: Slavery is still legal in the United States; why do you think they have 25% of the entire world’s incarcerated people there?
For cheap, slave labor.
Isn’t America great?!
Despite making up only 2.4% of the world's population, Americans commit 25% of the crimes
That would be funny, but I actually just read how some EU countries have more “admissions” than America. They just don’t lock them away in labor camps.
It was actually on the AI Overview, so take that with a grain of salt lol
Ive tried using the references in those AI responses, and they almost never have any relevant information. I dont understand the whole point of having a computer summarize something in its own words. I like the human words I guess.
Oh, I love this comment!
'abolished slavery' my ass
Well they specifically didn't for inmates
Slavery is legal as a punishment, and America has 25% of the world’s incarcerated people.
We used to have laws requiring products made by American slaves to state such, but those have since been gutted or loopholed through 3rd parties.
That's why I said that. People always like to talk about slavery in past tense when it still exists in pretty much any corner of the world.
Prisons should never be for profit.
On the subject of prison, how can a prison be privatized. I dont live in the U.S and never heard of private prisons. Are there other countries that do this and if so, how many
How does a prison even make many?
They bill the state and use the prisoners for labor. Its a us thing that's disgusting, vile and very profitable.
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If you replace the word prison with forced labor camp it makes more sense. Other countries with forced labor of prisoners include Russia, North Korea, and China. In the US they use the 13th amendment to prevent organization of prison labor and defense of their basic human rights.
And the thousands of corporations benefiting from both slave labor costs and it's effect on reducing organized labor's bargaining position
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Why doesn’t anybody have a date somewhere in their screenshots? Is this from today? A month ago? 4 years ago?
Almost 7.5 even worse lol
I remember this one from the olden days, that's probably why.
Slaves. The private prison is demanding that the government give them 300 slaves.
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Then let it fucking close. What kind of threat is that? Good, fucking close it. Is the implication that the other prisoners will just end up on the street doing crimes again? No, they will get transferred, because that’s how the prison system works. If there’s not enough prisoners to fill a fucking prison then close it. That private company that was built on imprisonment can EAT THAT FUCKING COST. Man fuck everything about this.
I once went to object at some kind of public hearing the local government was doing about going forward with building a new prison. They were trying to make the argument that it's not up to them how many people are imprisoned, they just have a legal obligation to imprison people the courts tell them to. I wasn't sure to what extent that was really true, but I'm guessing the first thing that would happen is overcrowded inhumane conditions rather than freeing people.
That’s the thing, right. That’s completely logical in a vacuum. But once you realize there are perverse systemic incentives to lock people up in a country like the US, that argument completely falls apart.
“Haha those americans are so funny! It’s illegal to walk a pig on a paved road after sunset in this small town! Isn’t that random?” No, it’s not random at all. There’s a reason these laws were ever put on the books.
My part of the world is no better than the US regarding mistreatment of undeserving people but at least nobody pretends we live and breathe unparalleled liberty.
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Millennials are ruining our prison system!!!
Not if we make the things they do illegal... Like watching too much book or maybe talking to others during mealtimes? Him?
When the prison industry is threatened by plummeting incarceration rates because we're not sending every kid with a dime bag of weed to prison for life...we'll surely see some prison system reforms, right?
Who am I kidding. If the prison industrial complex is threatened and they're not making up the shortfall by imprisoning "deportees" in private federal prisons, we're going to swiftly see marijuana back on schedule 1 with a new reefer madness bullshit propaganda. Or they'll find something new to bolster mass incarceration.
The USA just wouldn't be the same without slave labor! Who'll fight our fires in California? Fuck me, I just searched for US prison produced goods and services and found https://www.unicor.gov/
This country has been fucked for a long time. I really think a lot of people in America are so selfish and greedy that they actually are okay with slavery. They won't use that word though, it makes them uncomfortable FOR SOME REASON.
We wouldn't want to make a middle class white suburban consumer buying products made by prison slaves uncomfortable now...
Would we?!
I guess they are demanding more criminals. More CEO killers, possibly.
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In developing world: our prison is so full and most are just minor, non-violent crime, we should decriminalise those offence so prison can free up spaces and use those budget for infrastructure that need the money.
Merica:
This is what happen if you have for-profit, private prison.
Don't worry, it's not a dictatorship. After all, every 4 years you get to choose between keeping this prison open and opening new ones.
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