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Re:How corporations buy and food made with prison labor by aeternum on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @02:17PM (#27212351)
Why can't we have a system that provides both removal and rehabilitation?

If I were designing a prison system, it would be a mini-society. Only a minimal set of rules would be specified and enforced by those outside the prison. The rest would be voted on and enforced by the prisoners themselves.

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Re:How corporations buy and food made with prison labor by aerostable_slug on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:13PM (#27213067)
They do that in Honduras, Bolivia, and other developing nations. I've seen footage of one such prison where the inmates voted to exile the prisoners with AIDS to the dump, where they were forced to scavenge for food to survive.

I don't think I'd recommend it for the U.S.

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