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Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

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[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

That's not how the prison industry works. There's no money in fixing people if you can use them as unpaid labour.

[-] BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

"prison industry" - I like that

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

There are actually privately owned prisons, with investors, and profit incentives, and they're a problem.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

And they literally do forced labor for corporations, who pay the prison for that, which is legal because slavery is still legal in prisons. It's absolutely an industry.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I know in the early 2000s both McDonalds and Applebee's were known to have used prison labor to have their uniforms made.

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I seen some doc about some ultra tough texan prison guy. He was all "We need to punish people and my prison the best because we break our prisoners and make them behave perfectly and control everything they can do so they do no wrong. Then finally after decades of doing that we release then into the public all fixed"

So the doc was about him going to Norway where they live on this island and have a room and "freedom" to wander around. They just have to be at certain places at certain times and can't do lots of stuff. He gets on the ferry and the guy running the ferry is a prisoner in a paid job. He tells him he tried to get that job because that's the easiest way to escape. But then he laughed and told him he was joking.

The whole time this texan is just confused that a prison like that has better rehabilitation and lower repeated criminals than his prison

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I write about what can be done before the bloodshed and the prison sentence. But yeah, the next logical step is to look into these fuckers too.

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