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Re:From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how a prison's... by mcsb4 on Monday September 02, 2019 @05:55AM (#20857956)
The prisions are not state run but commercial entities. Thus there is a certain incentive to lobby for longer sentences in order to make more business. Occasionally they pay "commission" like in this scheme to jail youth for profit: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139536686...
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Re:From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how a prison's... by dmm on Monday September 02, 2019 @08:34AM (#20858679)
Prisons in the US no doubt have a lot of problems but I don't think Louisiana has any private prisons. And private prisons only hold 8.5% of prisoners across the US.
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