How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send an Email

Re:How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send an... by akudha on Saturday August 04, 2018 @06:14PM (#17688675)

Getting rich by

charging insane amounts of money from sick people (healthcare) charging insane premiums and still trying every way to not pay when a person does fall sick charging insane amounts of money in fees from students, selling textbooks for hundreds of dollars, putting them in debt for life - all with not even a guarantee of half decent job when they finish their course making sure workers get slightly less hours than required, so they don't have to pay benefits creating private prisons (WTF)

and on and on...

How is any of this moral?

Ah, it is just business, nothing personal.

How many decisions are made with morality and ethics in mind vs legality in the business world?

This is what happens if we reduce everything to profit and loss

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Re:How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send an... by jjeaff on Saturday August 04, 2018 @08:44PM (#17689120)

You'll notice that every bit of exploitation you mention is enabled by governments.

Imagine how cheap sending email as a prisoner would be if governments didn't create artificial monopolies either by crony selection or ridiculous barriers to entry. Hint, it would be about as cheap as it is for everyone else.

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Re:How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send an... by pastage on Monday August 06, 2018 @11:20AM (#17698367)

Prisons are enabled by the people, you decide what should go on in there if you live in an democracy. AFAIK the prison/jail system in the US is administered on county/state/federal level and there are also private versions. From what I've heard it's pretty bad in all of them.

Here in Sweden we have some pretty crappy habits too regarding jails, so I understand the issue with getting the people to unite for prisoners rights.

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