Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 9 个月前When existing becomes illegallemmy.worldimagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1877arrow-down111file-text
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minus-squareAquilalinkfedilinkarrow-up97arrow-down1·edit-29 个月前Gotta fill the slave camps prisons somehow!
minus-squareNegativeInf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up38arrow-down1·9 个月前How many of the supreme court justices own stakes in for profit prisons?
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up35·edit-29 个月前Forced labor is not exclusive to private prisons. Federal and state prisons employ inmates just the same. Our nation incarcerates more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and two out of three of these incarcerated people are also workers. https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers
minus-squaregAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·edit-29 个月前Jails and prisons also purchase a ton of goods and services from for profit companies, who are all too happy to upcharge (“you can’t put a price on safety!”), and the wardens just sign on the dotted line and hand the bill over to taxpayers This documentary from about 20 years ago went to one of their tradeshows, and even back then they were talking about how it corrections was a billion dollar industry e; mirror link for Up the Ridge
Gotta fill the
slave campsprisons somehow!How many of the supreme court justices own stakes in for profit prisons?
Forced labor is not exclusive to private prisons. Federal and state prisons employ inmates just the same.
https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers
Jails and prisons also purchase a ton of goods and services from for profit companies, who are all too happy to upcharge (“you can’t put a price on safety!”), and the wardens just sign on the dotted line and hand the bill over to taxpayers
This documentary from about 20 years ago went to one of their tradeshows, and even back then they were talking about how it corrections was a billion dollar industry
e; mirror link for Up the Ridge
“Eleventeen”
– SCOTUS (ruling 6-3)