dgar ,
@dgar@aus.social avatar

If you allow a profit to be made from prisoners, then you create a demand for prisoners.

SETSystems ,
@SETSystems@defcon.social avatar

@dgar
and
If you allow a profit to be made from prisons, then you create a demand for prisons.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/imagine-a-conference-full-of-conspiracy-theorists-sponsored-by-a-prison-company-at-a-trump-resort/

Npars01 ,
@Npars01@mstdn.social avatar

@dgar

China's Uigher slave labor camps are no match for the $9 billion of goods and services coming from the US penitentiary system.

When Trump talks about jailing immigrants and political opponents, this is what he means.

GOP billionaires profiting from slaves. Walmart likes slavery.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States#:~:text=women%20for%20jobs.-,Modern%20prison%20labor%20systems,less%20than%20%241%20per%20hour.
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/china-83-major-brands-implicated-in-report-on-forced-labour-of-ethnic-minorities-from-xinjiang-assigned-to-factories-across-provinces-includes-company-responses/

FantasticalEconomics ,
@FantasticalEconomics@geekdom.social avatar

@dgar

For those who haven't seen what the result of this demand for prisoners is, I suggest you check out this scrolling visual:

https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/

The raw numbers just don't capture - or at least we humans struggle to comprehend - the true magnitude of the US prison system.

JessTheUnstill ,
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar

@dgar
Similarly, if exploitive and abusive companies are profitable, then investors will demand even more exploitive and abusive companies. The only way to reverse that trend is for labor to organize and make exploiting and abusing unprofitable.

linuxjj ,
@linuxjj@mastodon.social avatar

@dgar these fuckers.

https://www.geogroup.com/who_we_are

dgar OP ,
@dgar@aus.social avatar

@linuxjj and these fuckers.

https://www.ventia.com/what-we-do/capabilities/custodial-operations-management

D_J_Nathanson ,
@D_J_Nathanson@mastodon.social avatar

@dgar @linuxjj Please understand that the largest sources of prison profit are not in private prisons. They are in state-run prisons: extortionate phone call rates, extortionate canteen rates, extortionate video visit rates, inflated costs for contractors providing substandard food, medical care, and clothing and kickbacks to the prison from the contractors. These are the largest sources of profit in prisons. State-run prisons.

readermom ,
@readermom@mindly.social avatar

@dgar

When Reagan deinstitutionalized mental health patients it resulted in many being held in prisons and increasing homeless populations. Now the Supreme(ly corrupt) Court is allowing cities to punish homeless people for being homeless. That could & will result in imprisoning homeless folks. Isn't it ironic that the for-profit prisons are big supporters of R pols?

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