nothingcorporate@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 year agoHappy Freedom Day...I guess.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1781arrow-down140
arrow-up1741arrow-down1imageHappy Freedom Day...I guess.lemmy.worldnothingcorporate@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square96fedilink
minus-squareHypersapien@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down4·1 year agoOnly about 8% of the US prison population is in for-profit prisons.
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year agoAnd how many of these other prisons offer up their prisoners as extremely cheap labor to businesses that ARE for profit?
minus-square🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoListen I live in the USA, but if thats your best pushback to all those facts - should tell you what a dire state we are in. And prisons that aren’t for profit still send out prisoners to for-profit industries to work, so it’s kind of a moot point.
minus-squareThenThreeMore@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s still about 96,344 people. Which is nearly double the total prison population of Spain.
Only about 8% of the US prison population is in for-profit prisons.
And how many of these other prisons offer up their prisoners as extremely cheap labor to businesses that ARE for profit?
Listen I live in the USA, but if thats your best pushback to all those facts - should tell you what a dire state we are in. And prisons that aren’t for profit still send out prisoners to for-profit industries to work, so it’s kind of a moot point.
That’s still about 96,344 people. Which is nearly double the total prison population of Spain.