▲ 129 ▼ Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers (www.theguardian.com) submitted 3 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 8 comments fedilink hide all child comments Critics condemn superintendent Mike Miles’s ‘new education system’ that removes students’ access to books
[–] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) @InverseParallax @halferect Privately run prison(s) ... to make up for their waning oil revenues. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] orclev@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago They've also found a loophole. They can't technically institute slavery, but they can make prisoners work for essentially free which to them is the next best thing. Make it illegal to be poor, privatize the prisons, and bam, modern day plantations complete with a slave workforce. Even better from their perspective they don't even need to buy the slaves, they get them for free. Profiting off of prisoners should be illegal. Private prisons should be illegal. It's utterly ridiculous how much of the US population is incarcerated compared to literally any other country in the world. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] orclev@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago They've also found a loophole. They can't technically institute slavery, but they can make prisoners work for essentially free which to them is the next best thing. Make it illegal to be poor, privatize the prisons, and bam, modern day plantations complete with a slave workforce. Even better from their perspective they don't even need to buy the slaves, they get them for free. Profiting off of prisoners should be illegal. Private prisons should be illegal. It's utterly ridiculous how much of the US population is incarcerated compared to literally any other country in the world. permalink fedilink source parent