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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by tyingq on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:08PM (#33396310)
I wouldn't overlook the money angle either. Privatization, either outright, or in part via service fees for phones, books, commissary, etc, has changed the system.
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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:58PM (#33396872)
It's mostly money. The penal system is extremely profitable. Slave labour redefined.
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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by sangnoir on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:35PM (#33397243)
Slave labor continued - the 14th amendment clearly spells it out : "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States[...]"
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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by bobmaxup on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:07PM (#33397528)
> the 14th amendment clearly spells

The 13th*

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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by gruez on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:25PM (#33397157)
>It's mostly money. The penal system is extremely profitable.

source? Specifically, the claim that it's "mostly" money.

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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by formerkrogemp on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:00PM (#33397484)
CoreCivic and Geo both own and operate the majority of prisons in the US.
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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by hirvi74 on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:55AM (#33402222)
Only ~8% of prisoners are incarcerated in private facilities.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...

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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by formerkrogemp on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:32AM (#33405448)
"Companies own or manage 75% of U.S. detention facilities. Two of the biggest companies, CoreCivic and The GEO Group, are publicly traded. In the correctional system, however, less than 10% of state and federal inmates are in the care of private prisons."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/why-private-prisons-geo-grou...

Well, it seems I need to brush up on some reading then.

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