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The Convict Leasing Forced Labor System (slrpnk.net)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not to diminish how messed up prison labor is, or how private prisons shouldn't be a thing at all, to say that prison labor makes up a significant portion of the US economy is a pretty big stretch.

FPI/UNICORE only has about a half billion in gross revenue, and the entire private prison sector is around ~$8 billion.
The US economy is in the $25 trillion range. Arby's is about half the size of the private prison industry, and eight times larger than FPI. ($4 billion)

Neither should exist in the modern era, and getting rid of them would be an almost unnoticeable impact on the economy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"neither" you mean prison labour and Arby's, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I suppose I should have said "none".
Even though Arby's has personally hurt me more than private prisons, I still think that privatized cruelty that somehow manages to be worse than our already pretty shitty penal system is worse that the gastrointestinal nightmare that Arby's has given me.