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A Boring Dystopia
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Wait, yall dont have private prisons outside the us...?
Not to anywhere near the same degree. Also, just a few decades ago, you guys didn't have them at all. The 1980s is where everything went bad for you guys.
In the first Robocop film, there's even a scene where the board members of the evil megacorporation OCP are discussing traditionally non-private sectors where they're making inroads, and prisons are listed.
The UK has a handful, and the contractor that runs them, G4S, is the name everyone instinctively listens out for in news reports about escaped prisoners, event security disasters and probes into site mismanagement.
If Australia does, I'm too "stuck indoors with no TV" to notice.
I do know there are too many teens/indigenous Australians locked up.
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(The way I see it, they were here first. Why are they going to jail for walking freely on their land? Just because Town Council put a road there?
I'm in a part of Australia where there is the White Mans Name, and the Indigenous Name for the land, and I am happy to put their name first.)