• Art3mis
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    2 days ago

    Wait, yall dont have private prisons outside the us…?

    • Apepollo11
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      1 day ago

      Not to anywhere near the same degree. Also, just a few decades ago, you guys didn’t have them at all. The 1980s is where everything went bad for you guys.

      In the first Robocop film, there’s even a scene where the board members of the evil megacorporation OCP are discussing traditionally non-private sectors where they’re making inroads, and prisons are listed.

      The UK has a handful, and the contractor that runs them, G4S, is the name everyone instinctively listens out for in news reports about escaped prisoners, event security disasters and probes into site mismanagement.

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      2 days ago

      If Australia does, I’m too “stuck indoors with no TV” to notice.

      I do know there are too many teens/indigenous Australians locked up.

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      (The way I see it, they were here first. Why are they going to jail for walking freely on their land? Just because Town Council put a road there?

      I’m in a part of Australia where there is the White Mans Name, and the Indigenous Name for the land, and I am happy to put their name first.)