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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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