chromium
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Problem is that so many prisons are privately run now that inmates are basically slaves to corporations. Their labors are not exactly paying back the government or the general public. And in some states there is so much overcrowding in prisons that some states are releasing prisoners, like what California had to do. So let's be real, inmate forced labor is not about their rehabilitation it's about corporate profits. If prisons were still largely state owned I might have a different view of it.
I support the strikes 100%. Surely some inmates are going to get violent over it but most aren't. In most states it's a hunger strike. It's already attracting international attention and once prisoners start to drop like flies there will be an outcry.
Right and to me this only proves that even before for-profit prisons, 'justice' in america was by and large not about justice at all. It was not about deterrence or rehab either. Something has to be ****ed before it can become even more ****ed. Here we sit with corporate pigs trying to bribe judges and politicians to ruin lives, but it is just built on top of very common problems - innocent (or guilty of victimless crime) people taking plea deals to avoid much greater sentences, utter disregard for civil liberty as compared to corporate interests, appointed lawyers who fall asleep, laws way too broadly defined and too slowly altered as technology changes (ex: teenagers being charged as 'sex offenders' for taking a nude pic of themselves)