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Re:White-Collar Crime: Why Executives Don’t Go to Prison by everdayimhustln on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @12:58AM (#14651794)
Exactly. Highest per capita incarceration rate in the world, save Seychelles. Slavery 2.0 meets prison-industrial complex and voter disenfranchisement. The US justice system is the opposite of reform-based systems like those in many Scandinavian countries. It's mean, expensive and reinforces a type of social apartheid.
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Re:White-Collar Crime: Why Executives Don’t Go to Prison by Cryptid on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @06:46PM (#14659224)
The Census counts prisoners according to the "usual residence rule," assigning them to their prison for purpose of location and, of course, redistricting. A prison is a good way to get a lot of bodies to populate a district and ensure they won't vote.
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