Largest prison population both in absolute size AND per capita. Also, random fact, their constitution allows prisoners to be forced into slave labour. Also, another random fact, their prisons are run for profit. None of these facts are related of course!
Next you’re going to tell me that these for-profit prisons lobby the government for harsher prison sentences for things like cannabis possession.
Only for people that are black or poor.
Not to nitpick but not ALL prisons in the US are for-profit. They should be illegal though.
Fun fact - other countries that have for-profit prisons include the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Chile, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, South Korea and Thailand.
This won’t do much since most of these prisons operate under state jurisdiction, but in 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to stop the United States Department of Justice from renewing further contracts with private prisons.
True, however there are bs for-profit elements to even the non-for-profit prisons. Predatory costs to calling / commissary / etc. that still benefit companies when the US imprisons more people.
Absolutely. We need a prison reform.
Even "not for profit" prisons are lining millionaires pockets with infrastructure and maintenance contracts.
And house arrest is being used for mass incarceration of people being ACCUSED before conviction. The punishment can be more severe before conviction.
And many states let private companies charge accused people up to $40 a day for the ankle bracelets.
Did you also watch that Vice documentary?
Wtf Do they get it back if found not guilty? Do you have a source?
Uhh...nope.
Also...about 25% of the people incarcerated in America aren't even convicted of a crime yet.
Even if they're found innocent, it's likely already cost them their job or made it so they are so far behind on bills from not working that it becomes next to impossible to climb out from under
Only about 8% of the US prison population is in for-profit prisons.
That's still about 96,344 people. Which is nearly double the total prison population of Spain.
And how many of these other prisons offer up their prisoners as extremely cheap labor to businesses that ARE for profit?
Reminder that the US have never abolished slavery for prisoners and have one of the largest slave population in the world.
Yep... And every time there's an employment issue for the agricultural industry, they whip out the prisoners...
However to the prisoner's credit: They do an absolutely terrible job at whatever it is they're doing.
Why? What are they going to do... Fire you? Jail you? You have no incentive at all to do the job well as a prisoner.
Bonus is by doing a horrific job it makes employers less likely to actually request prison workforces.
Nice to see that even here - a shitposting forum - whenever anybody posts anything negative about America, yanks can't handle it.
They made it a business. How many places in the world have private incarceration facilities?
I’ve heard some prisons have minimum prisoner requirements, which is incredibly fucked up
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