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It's never been about helping people (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 21 points 2 days ago (1 child)

If a person has a criminal conviction for homelessness, how likely they are to pass the background check with that conviction?

It feels like poor->homeless->convict->unemployable->indentured servant is the expected career transition.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    It's been known for 50+ years that incarcerating a person is the most criminogenic you could do to them. It increases crime. It solves none of the problems it uses to nominally justify its existence

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Can I have some sources? I believe what you just said but the studies might actually say something slightly different.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago*

    Source is a college course from 20 years ago 😭 so I don't recall specifics, but the idea is that prisons don't so much as reduce crime as contain it, or shift it around.

    I'm not sure you'd see that in reported crime stats in an area though

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