Prisoners shouldn't need to pay to talk with their families. We claim that our system is intended for rehabilitation. What could possibly lead to better outcomes than the ability to keep in touch with your family; to be made to feel human while serving your sentence? The US justice system is a fucking joke and for-profit prison shareholders are the only ones laughing.

Incarceration should have no profit motive, regardless of whether that profit motive benefits a for-profit company and its shareholders or the local Sheriff's department.

The answer highlights a profound flaw in how decisions too often get made in our legal system

The fact that the author, despite them providing all of this evidence to the contrary, still thinks (or is at least reporting) that this is a bug, not a feature, is absolutely enraging.

Reminder that prisons are slavery with extra steps

This country is just pure evil.

Wow, so when they enjoyed unlimited power, they.... Abused it!?

People now a days are really off the rails man. Back in the day, absolute power didn't corrupt. It only tickled. Slightly.

/s

Breaking news: Making the correctional system a business venture was a bad idea. More at 8.

I read about this in Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle. I'm surprised it didn't get more traction in the press.

Lol America as usual.

What a joke of a country - so many horrible decisions in one place.

Indescribable pain to those responsible.

Cunts

commodifying things that can't be made in a factory is always a mistake.

I don’t believe in carceral justice but those who abuse prisoners deserve to join their victims.

This came up in a John Oliver episode about prison labour, this episode I think: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AjqaNQ018zU

Jpay.com is what I used when I went to jail.

A literal captive consumer. Capitalists wet dream come true. Just think of the returns if this model could be expanded! Disrupting the economy by disrupting your freedom.

They're not trying to build a prison for you and me, they already have.

All these profit farming scams for prisons should be criminal conduct. It's sickening how little the public cares about systemic abuse of prisoners.

I've already accepted there's never gonna be justice for me, so I'm just never gonna have kids. The best thing I can do for my kids is not make them have to live here. I've seen the system from the inside and the bottom and expect that voting works the same as this:

One word: corrupt.