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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by mwint on Sunday October 30, 2022 @12:53PM (#33396105)
How is this the first time I hear this stat? I feel like my angst toward the system has been misallocated for a very long time.
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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by jjeaff on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:30PM (#33396546)
Private prison services like phone and email systems are still able to take advantage of prisoners, even in public prisons.
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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by alex_sf on Sunday October 30, 2022 @12:59PM (#33396174)
It's like quite a few "horrible injustices"; they get piggybacked onto a few smaller and real issues, and then taken as gospel.
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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by ROTMetro on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:32PM (#33397780)
Because this is a recent development happening in part because it was a major agenda item for Biden. But note that they didn't close the private prisons, they just switched them to be used for ICE/Immigration incarceration because it's harder for those in that incarceration class to exercise their rights. https://www.geogroup.com/LOCATIONS
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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by alex_sf on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:54PM (#33397993)
This is provably false. The private prison population has increased by 14% since 2000. [1]

[1] https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...

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