Largest prison population both in absolute size AND per capita. Also, random fact, their constitution allows prisoners to be forced into slave labour. Also, another random fact, their prisons are run for profit. None of these facts are related of course!
Next you’re going to tell me that these for-profit prisons lobby the government for harsher prison sentences for things like cannabis possession.
Only for people that are black or poor.
And house arrest is being used for mass incarceration of people being ACCUSED before conviction. The punishment can be more severe before conviction.
And many states let private companies charge accused people up to $40 a day for the ankle bracelets.
Did you also watch that Vice documentary?
Wtf Do they get it back if found not guilty? Do you have a source?
Uhh…nope.
Also…about 25% of the people incarcerated in America aren’t even convicted of a crime yet.
Even if they’re found innocent, it’s likely already cost them their job or made it so they are so far behind on bills from not working that it becomes next to impossible to climb out from under
Not to nitpick but not ALL prisons in the US are for-profit. They should be illegal though.
Fun fact - other countries that have for-profit prisons include Australia, Canada, France, the UK, Israel, South Korea, and New Zealand.
This won’t do much since most of these prisons operate under state jurisdiction, but in 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to stop the United States Department of Justice from renewing further contracts with private prisons.
Even “not for profit” prisons are lining millionaires pockets with infrastructure and maintenance contracts.
True, however there are bs for-profit elements to even the non-for-profit prisons. Predatory costs to calling / commissary / etc. that still benefit companies when the US imprisons more people.
Absolutely. We need a prison reform.
Only about 8% of the US prison population is in for-profit prisons.
And how many of these other prisons offer up their prisoners as extremely cheap labor to businesses that ARE for profit?
Listen I live in the USA, but if thats your best pushback to all those facts - should tell you what a dire state we are in. And prisons that aren’t for profit still send out prisoners to for-profit industries to work, so it’s kind of a moot point.
I’m also in the US and I’m aware of all of this.
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california spending 100k+ per prisoner but renting them out for pennies is one of the insane unsustainable aspects of the system and then going and saying “we can’t afford to let them out” is mind numbing.
The whole circus is just to keep wages down and arrest anybody folks don’t want in their shitty suburb.
That’s still about 96,344 people. Which is nearly double the total prison population of Spain.
THEY’RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON THEY’RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON THEY’RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON FOR YOU AND ME
All research and successful drug policy SHOOOWS that treatment should be increased
Law enforcement decreased while abolishing. mandatory. minimum. sentences.
Utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe
Drug moneys are used to rig elections and train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world 😊
Classic song
Having to live in the US is already a punishment, being inmate is like being in a prison inside a prison.
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I’ve had a good, privileged life here in America. I got lucky as a white male in a middle class upbringing, but to complain about my life would be wrong. I am well educated with a solid career path, great benefits, and am doing well. Have always lived comfortably, but still work hard to get ahead. I can’t imagine there is much room for improvement anywhere else in the world for me.
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there are reasons why people are or are trying to immigrate here in droves
If you compare yourself to third-world countries you always come out looking good. “America Bad” can definitely get circlejerky though, no denying that
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I’ve given the US tons of shit and have even done so in this thread, but I’ll be the first to admit there’s plenty of reason to migrate. Much of the country is an unwalkable hellhole with mediocre salaries, but there are still at least a few cities that are 1) walkable or have good public transit, 2) have salaries that even western Europe can only dream of 3) aren’t all that bad with crime either.
It just sucks to be poor in the US. But if you’ve got a great career, it’s one of the few places where hard work CAN technically result in becoming a millionaire, as a software engineer or doctor for an example. The country has a working population for 167 million and somehow has over 20 million millionaires.
Also there’s so much variety of nature for one country, it’s nuts.
If H1Bs weren’t so hard to come by, I’d probably move and work for that sweet US software engineer salary for 5 years, then move back to my homeland that has much cheaper property lol
They made it a business. How many places in the world have private incarceration facilities?
Many countries have private prisons.
And in how many of those is it legal for prison corporations to buy laws?
Oh! Many countries do it, so it’s fine! Noted.
Not saying it’s fine, just that stupid questions deserve stupid answers.
Then go find go find a stupid question to give your stupid answers to.
For-profit prisons are a fucking scourge, and they’re way too common.
I already have though… I hope you have a better day, friend.
Ahh there it is
Someone asked a question and someone gave an answer. It isn’t a political commentary.
And yet still most Americans think everyone is trying to sneak into their country! You couldn’t pay me to live there.
I’m surprised there is not more travel advisory warnings for travel to America 😮💨
The american continent is actually quite dangerous - if I remember right most of the top 10 dangerous cities are in south- or north america.
Also I once heard that the US is the country with the highest death rate which isn’t in a (civil) war…
A lot of people try to get refugee status in the US, but the CBP puts them in open-air prisons in the desert. There are also are least 16 million undocumented immigrants living in the US. They don’t all have to “sneak”, they just overstay their visas.
The CBP was commissioned explicitly to enforce racial “hygiene” in the US. I don’t understand how they weren’t disbanded decades ago.
Fuck man…
Listen, a lot of people don’t understand the key to the living well in the United States. It’s really very simple. Just be rich. You’ll have the best life ever.
If you’re too stupid to be rich (or you didn’t inherit a billion dollars from your parents), blame some poor brown dude for “stealing” a shitty job that you didn’t actually want anyways because it’s worse and pays less than your shitty job. It won’t make anything better at all but at least you’ll feel like you understand why everything sucks (even though you actually don’t) and you’ll have the benefit of living in poverty AND feeling smugly superior to someone else who also lives in poverty for stupid (racist) reasons.
And if you think about it, that sense of superiority is nearly as good (it definitely isn’t) as being rich.
Wow.
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Would you be surprised to hear that nobody forces you to break the law and go to prison in the US?
Would you be surprised to hear that some people are desperate and resort to gangs and theft because other opportunities have been closed off? How about that we have mass untreated mental illness and people resort to drugs to self medicate? How about that mental illness is still misunderstood even now, leaving people to commit “crimes” such as loitering and being threatening even though what they just need is healthcare? How about that the war on drugs is really what made our prison population sky rocket and the massive increase started in the 1980’s? How about that mass incarceration does nothing to affect violent or property crime?
Awful large wall of text stating exactly what I said.
Nobody forces you to commit crime. You make your own choices.
You want to self medicate with drugs and can’t handle your shit, you belong in prison or in the ground. You have a mental illness that you decide you don’t want to treat and threaten someone, you belong in prison or in the ground.
There is no lack of opportunity in the US, no matter your upbringing or where you’re from. You wanna keep that victim mentality, go for it, but nobody gives a fuck.
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I’ve heard some prisons have minimum prisoner requirements, which is incredibly fucked up
How does that play out? Do they try to extend sentences? Can they try to influence intake?
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:( That’s not nice
Reminder that the US have never abolished slavery for prisoners and have one of the largest slave population in the world.
Yep… And every time there’s an employment issue for the agricultural industry, they whip out the prisoners…
However to the prisoner’s credit: They do an absolutely terrible job at whatever it is they’re doing.
Why? What are they going to do… Fire you? Jail you? You have no incentive at all to do the job well as a prisoner.
Bonus is by doing a horrific job it makes employers less likely to actually request prison workforces.
Tha fuck are you talking about?
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Nice to see that even here - a shitposting forum - whenever anybody posts anything negative about America, yanks can’t handle it.
I love how it’s full of people whining about having left reddit to escape this shit like bruh this is the fediverse
Is there a community that exclusively shits on the US on the threadiverse?
Lemmygrad as a whole enjoys it
Is that in between trips to the gulag or starving or?
-be the “first in the world” -everywhere you go yell “USA! USA! USA!” -sparking people’s curiosity and they look into your garden -they find a dystopian horror show, a land where billionaires are kings, millions deprived of liberty, hundred millions depraved of healthcare, an ever increasing tumour of fascists group that wish for some women and minorities to have fewer rights
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You can’t have the biggest running circus without everyone starring and complaining and debating.
Tell me you’ve learned everything you know about the US from 13 year olds online without telling me you learned everything you know from 13 year olds online.
he’s not wrong though. like, the mass shooting yesterday was something like the 340th so far this year? the place is fucking nuts
Now remove gang violence.
hmmm so what, only like 20 then? you’re right, that’s absolutely an acceptable amount of mass shootings in the first half of the year.
totally normal and something every country experiences. my bad.
And of those remaining “only like 20”, how many were random acts of violence?
We’re so close to getting to the infinitesimally small statistical likelihood of this happening.
Oh and when you’re done with that, remove cities too.
I wonder how high these kinds of posts spiked during the migration
There’s a few things missing from behind the mask
And potentially somewhere around half of that population is in there for non-violent crimes, with alot of inmates in for drug offenses, it’s absolutely ridiculous. Focus on the people that need to be in prisons, the violent sociopaths, stop trying to turn more people into criminals.
And an huge colonial empire ( europe/japan/korea )
The US isn’t a colonial empire.
You wut mate?
Look up, hmmm what’s a good one… Oh oh, Northern Marianas Islands. Go go go
The Northern Mariana Islands are a US commonwealth, they voted for and easily chose it in 1975.
Gosh that sounds an awful lot like colonialism with extra steps. Check out their labor law history. It’s a real fun read.
Why the negativity and sarcasm?
The US is one of the biggest colonial empires in history.
Then it should be easy to provide an example of a US colony.
Nato countries, easy.
You can’t seriously believe that, come on.
You can’t seriously believe that nato countries are really indipendent. The USA choose single ministers from certain countries and prime minister needs usa approval.
Do you have evidence for this claim?
Are you implying the US chose the prime ministers of Hungary and Turkey?
Then join them in ‘solidarity’.
How can America have 25% of the world’s prison population of the entire country doesn’t make up even 10% of the world’s population?
Other countries don’t hold as many people in jail?
Damn u onto something
Well see, that’s kinda the point of the post.
We’re “the land of the free” but also the land of the most non-free people.
Non free people with the best Free speach laws
We have that percentage because we actually lock up our criminals, unlike Sweden or Germany.
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Let’s see your source. Show everyone even a shed of evidence supporting your claims.
Are you stupid?
I don’t agree with this person, but I also feel like I’m missing something in particular if you’re asking whether this person is stupid for having that take. Am I? Is there something about those county’s prison systems that is important here?
You didn’t have to ask
Sure. Definitely nothing to do with the fact that in your country, locking people up is SUPER profitable for prisons and a few other industries so certain institutions lobby to make sure more people keep getting locked up.
