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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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Not to diminish how messed up prison labor is, or how private prisons shouldn't be a thing at all, to say that prison labor makes up a significant portion of the US economy is a pretty big stretch.
FPI/UNICORE only has about a half billion in gross revenue, and the entire private prison sector is around ~$8 billion.
The US economy is in the $25 trillion range. Arby's is about half the size of the private prison industry, and eight times larger than FPI. ($4 billion)
Neither should exist in the modern era, and getting rid of them would be an almost unnoticeable impact on the economy.
"neither" you mean prison labour and Arby's, right?
I suppose I should have said "none".
Even though Arby's has personally hurt me more than private prisons, I still think that privatized cruelty that somehow manages to be worse than our already pretty shitty penal system is worse that the gastrointestinal nightmare that Arby's has given me.
SCOTUS just made being homeless illegal. There's about to be a lot more sla... er, prisoners.
It's not a great ruling, but it doesn't serve to be hyperbolic. They said that fines or punishment for "camping" (existing while homeless) on a cities public lands aren't de facto unconstitutional.
Not forbidden to fine or evict the homeless isn't the same as making homelessness illegal.