They’ve also found a loophole. They can’t technically institute slavery, but they can make prisoners work for essentially free which to them is the next best thing. Make it illegal to be poor, privatize the prisons, and bam, modern day plantations complete with a slave workforce. Even better from their perspective they don’t even need to buy the slaves, they get them for free.
Profiting off of prisoners should be illegal. Private prisons should be illegal. It’s utterly ridiculous how much of the US population is incarcerated compared to literally any other country in the world.
@InverseParallax @halferect
Privately run prison(s) … to make up for their waning oil revenues.
They’ve also found a loophole. They can’t technically institute slavery, but they can make prisoners work for essentially free which to them is the next best thing. Make it illegal to be poor, privatize the prisons, and bam, modern day plantations complete with a slave workforce. Even better from their perspective they don’t even need to buy the slaves, they get them for free.
Profiting off of prisoners should be illegal. Private prisons should be illegal. It’s utterly ridiculous how much of the US population is incarcerated compared to literally any other country in the world.