The Bigger The Theft, The Lighter The Sentence? - eviltoast
  • Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Well, mainly it’s about funnelling taxpayer money into the hands of the prison industrial complex cause most states don’t go quite so hard on the prison labor

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      It’s a positive feedback loop built off of human suffering. Private Prisons lobby for more slave labor, making the Capitalist State more money, while the Prison Industrial Complex gets more money for imprisoning more people, and more slave labor to sell cheap commodities.