Next you’re going to tell me that these for-profit prisons lobby the government for harsher prison sentences for things like cannabis possession.

Not to nitpick but not ALL prisons in the US are for-profit. They should be illegal though.

Fun fact - other countries that have for-profit prisons include Australia, Canada, France, the UK, Israel, South Korea, and New Zealand.

This won’t do much since most of these prisons operate under state jurisdiction, but in 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to stop the United States Department of Justice from renewing further contracts with private prisons.

And house arrest is being used for mass incarceration of people being ACCUSED before conviction. The punishment can be more severe before conviction.

And yet still most Americans think everyone is trying to sneak into their country! You couldn't pay me to live there.

I'm surprised there is not more travel advisory warnings for travel to America 😮‍💨

Fuck man...

Wow.

This was incredible. Thanks for sharing.

Yep... And every time there's an employment issue for the agricultural industry, they whip out the prisoners...

However to the prisoner's credit: They do an absolutely terrible job at whatever it is they're doing.

Why? What are they going to do... Fire you? Jail you? You have no incentive at all to do the job well as a prisoner.

Bonus is by doing a horrific job it makes employers less likely to actually request prison workforces.

All research and successful drug policy SHOOOWS that treatment should be increased

Must be nice not getting dronestrikes by some distant nation that is full of psychos