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Private Prisons Are Profiting From Harsher Sentencing Laws

jacobin.com Private Prisons Are Profiting From Harsher Sentencing Laws

Private prisons across the US are lobbying lawmakers for stricter sentencing laws. Benefitting from increased occupancy rates, these corporations are filling their pockets and enriching their shareholders.

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Private prisons lobby to make harsher sentencing laws. Seems like they already knew their profits came from human misery in the first place
Make Americans Slaves Again!
- Oof. That acronym.
  
  That's why I changed it from Make Slavery American Again.
  
  What's wrong with it masa'?
To me, the fact that for-profit prisons exist, is the perfect manifestation of the disease that's killing our country. It's one of the most unbelievably obvious examples of how unchecked capitalism ends up

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