Largest prison population both in absolute size AND per capita. Also, random fact, their constitution allows prisoners to be forced into slave labour. Also, another random fact, their prisons are run for profit. None of these facts are related of course!
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Next you’re going to tell me that these for-profit prisons lobby the government for harsher prison sentences for things like cannabis possession.
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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.
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And house arrest is being used for mass incarceration of people being ACCUSED before conviction. The punishment can be more severe before conviction.
And many states let private companies charge accused people up to $40 a day for the ankle bracelets.
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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 😮💨
The american continent is actually quite dangerous - if I remember right most of the top 10 dangerous cities are in south- or north america.
Also I once heard that the US is the country with the highest death rate which isn't in a (civil) war...
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Fuck man...
Listen, a lot of people don't understand the key to the living well in the United States. It's really very simple. Just be rich. You'll have the best life ever.
If you're too stupid to be rich (or you didn't inherit a billion dollars from your parents), blame some poor brown dude for "stealing" a shitty job that you didn't actually want anyways because it's worse and pays less than your shitty job. It won't make anything better at all but at least you'll feel like you understand why everything sucks (even though you actually don't) and you'll have the benefit of living in poverty AND feeling smugly superior to someone else who also lives in poverty for stupid (racist) reasons.
And if you think about it, that sense of superiority is nearly as good (it definitely isn't) as being rich.
Appropriate reaction. I never did the whole thing, because i'm not US and suddenly had enough.
Wow.
This was incredible. Thanks for sharing.
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Reminder that the US have never abolished slavery for prisoners and have one of the largest slave population in the world.
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.
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THEY'RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON THEY'RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON THEY'RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON FOR YOU AND ME
All research and successful drug policy SHOOOWS that treatment should be increased
Law enforcement decreased while abolishing. mandatory. minimum. sentences.
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Nice to see that even here - a shitposting forum - whenever anybody posts anything negative about America, yanks can't handle it.
Must be nice not getting dronestrikes by some distant nation that is full of psychos
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They made it a business. How many places in the world have private incarceration facilities?
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I’ve heard some prisons have minimum prisoner requirements, which is incredibly fucked up
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