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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by dgeiser13 on Saturday August 27, 2022 @05:06PM (#32623202)
I believe you are wrong about for-profit prisons. It is 100% the reason that the US has so many incarcerated. Any time you can get government to foot the bill for something cottage industries will spring up around it.
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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by kortilla on Sunday August 28, 2022 @11:00AM (#32628912)
> It is 100% the reason that the US has so many incarcerated. Any time you can get government to foot the bill for something cottage industries will spring up around it.

That doesn’t make sense. Building a prison in itself doesn’t induce crime nor does it induce prison sentences. Judges and juries have no quotas to fill based on vacancy.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by dgeiser13 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:54AM (#32651230)
I don't think you realize how corrupt the whole thing is.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-ma...

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