Texas charges prisoners 50% more for water as heat wave continues - eviltoast
  • zombuey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I feel like third world prisons just aren’t as elegant in their distribution of human suffering. Its a dated an inefficient system, its unstainable in its ability to really bring horror to scale. The Venezuelan prison population only accounts for .002 percent of the population or around 67,000 inmates. In the US the prison population accounts for .005 percent of the total population or 1.8 million and ever rising. The US accounts for a quarter of all inmates in the world though we represent only 5% of the worlds population. We do human suffering by the numbers. We’ve chosen quantity of quality. In a venezuelan prison sure you might be more likely to get chopped up by a cartel and the system is overpopulated as hell (157% over capacity). But in america we will profit off your misery and we have room for everyone! Sure we have dismemberments to here and there, we have slave farms, and even some chain gangs. But the beauty of the America approach to inmate facilities is its sustainable and scalable model that allows it to grow endlessly and distribute human suffering at scales never before conceived of. We are achieving the tin pot dictators “American Dream”.

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      1 year ago

      Bro people in venezuelan prisons would kill (I mean, again) to be in USA prisons

      Complains about human rights violations? Yeah try military police prison guards raping your wife during a visit while you watch, making you eat direct shit from the toilets it in your food and forcing electric volts through your balls.

      Anyone from s REAL third world country would kill to be in a US prison