Human lives are nothing but a form of currency to the oligarchs.
PLEASE put state or federal officials in the beds
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The US is a giant slave pen ran by half a dozen megacorps.
Thats all it's been since Reagan.
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.
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
Oh, I love this comment!
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.
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?!
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?
And remember, the criminals used to be us...normal people like you and I until the one day when they screw up noticeably.
'abolished slavery' my ass
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.
Well they specifically didn't for inmates
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.
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?
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
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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Use the prisoners for slave labor. That's capitalism for you.
We don’t get the weapons contracts, homie.
We don’t get the cheap labor, homie.
WE ARE CHEAP LABOR HOMIE
-Immortal Technique
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I guess they are demanding more criminals. More CEO killers, possibly.
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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.
They are threatening the local officials.
There are a lot of good paying jobs at stake and those people and their families vote.
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You have to realize that there are a lot of places where the local prison is the only industry they have left. Closing the prison means folks will be out of work.
So fucking what?
If the prison is the only thing keeping the town alive then the town doesn't need to exist.
A community should never be beholden to a single employer, company towns taught us that lesson over 100 years ago. And especially not an employer that traffics in human suffering and misery.
GTFO with this "people need jerbs" bullshit.
And those out of work folks will have to commit crimes in order to survive, which will then allow the prison to reopen! It's a win!
Then they should leave that city or figure out a way to work remote. Cities rise and fade with opportunity. You can't force there to be opportunity where there is none.
People might have forgotten, but it wasnt unheard of to move to neighboring towns for, wait for it, better opportunities. Not even that far away in some cases.
Closing prisons is always a good thing if its due to lack of prisoners. That trumps any need for steady wages for a group of people near the prison.
Edit: Stringere also made a good point about company towns in another comment.
That's honestly horrifying
Welcome to the Rust Belt.
Reagan let the infrastructure go to hell because he didn't want to raise taxes. That meant that there was never going to be a return for those towns that used to make things like lightbulbs or ladders. Thanks President Reagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt
. From 1979 to 1982, known as the Volcker shock,[10][11] the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to raise the base interest rate in the United States to 19%. High-interest rates attracted wealthy foreign "hot money" into U.S. banks and caused the U.S. dollar to appreciate. This made U.S. products more expensive for foreigners to buy and also made imports much cheaper for Americans to purchase. The misaligned exchange rate was not rectified until 1986, by which time Japanese imports, in particular, had made rapid inroads into U.S. markets.[12]
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.
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.
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