Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job

Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by qorrect on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:57AM (#31811123)

For-profit prisons.

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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by nceqs3 on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:15AM (#31811349)

For-profit prisons are a tiny minority of prisons in the US.

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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by RBBronson123 on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:21AM (#31811420)

You're right. About 10%. They are a relatively small player.

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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by qorrect on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:20AM (#31811408)

8% of prisoners in for profit prisons ? 5.6 million people, that's not tiny.

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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by RBBronson123 on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:22AM (#31811428)

No ~8% of those incarcerated are in private prisons

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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by ntoskrnl on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:14AM (#31811335)

War on drugs.

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Re:Ask HN: I shut down my company, now I need a job by krapp on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:40PM (#31816403)

All of the above plus systemic racism and a cultural aversion to non-punitive solutions to issues like drug abuse and mental illness.

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