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waciki | 1 year ago

I don't know if you're being good faith, prisoners are forced to work

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm

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flanked-evergl|1 year ago

No US prisoner is forced to work in any meaningful sense of the word "forced". They can just not work, they won't get beaten for it, they won't get killed for it. In some states, they are required to work. It's not the same as being forced to work. Being a criminal does not entitled them to free room and board on the taxpayer dime, in fact in a just world, society would be entitled to restitution from the criminal.

There is no better time and place to be a criminal in the US than today. Criminals are being coddled, which is why most Democrat cities are so crime-ridden.

razakel|1 year ago

>In some states, they are required to work.

>It's not the same as being forced to work.

That's exactly the same thing.

wizzwizz4|1 year ago

> The study examined 62 private prisons contracts in 21 states. It found that the majority of these contracts guarantee that the state will supply enough prisoners to keep between 80 and 100 percent of the private prisons’ beds filled.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/do-p... (2013)

flanked-evergl|1 year ago

The US does not falsely convict and jail innocent people en masse as policy. If anything. A much bigger problem is that the US does not convict and jail criminals en masse as policy.

There is no better time and place to be a criminal in the US than today. Criminals are being coddled, which is why most Democrat cities are so crime-ridden.