• @Kintarian
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    208 hours ago

    Here in California, they have decided that the best strategy is to tear down their camps and throw them in jail. Cuz that’ll solve everything.

    • @Stovetop
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      238 hours ago

      That way the state can make money off of them via slave labor.

      • @[email protected]
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        84 hours ago

        Nah the state doesnt make money. The state pays the prison with taxes and then the privately owned prison loans out its slaves for to get even more profit

        • @Stovetop
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          4 hours ago

          California actually has no private prisons, for what that’s worth. But that doesn’t mean state and federal prisons can’t be for-profit.

          State and federal prisons contract their inmates out to businesses through “work reform” programs to make things like cheap dorm furniture or food products. The business pays the prison for a contract, and the prisoners work for free or for a small credit they can spend at the prison comissary. Or sometimes it reduces the debt they get stuck with when they leave prison, because the government bills people for the cost of their own incarceration.

    • TrollivierOP
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      47 hours ago

      Here in Montreal they just tear down their camps and hope they will go away.

      • @surewhynotlem
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        53 hours ago

        Canada’s weather is a natural deterrent.

        And by deterrent I mean they dead.