How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind

Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by muwtyhg on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:20PM (#33396446)

> Its not the private prisons arresting people, trying people, and funneling them into their pocket books.

Have you heard of the "Kids For Cash" scandal? Private prisons actively try to get more people incarcerated by bribing judges. The judges are complicit too, but the private prisons are absolutely trying to "funnel them into their pocket books"

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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by jonfw on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:16PM (#33397078)

Any evidence that this continues to happen?

Any system with any amount of scale will have bad actors. It’s one very bad data point, but certainly not enough evidence that the whole system is corrupt

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