Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica

• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In the US where they decided to make the punitive system for-profit?

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Of course.

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  • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No. It’s more that they have higher costs and it averages out around 20 years. So it’s close to the average length of a life sentence except if they’re young. It’s only real cheap if you have a kangaroo court and just shoot people.

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  • Zangoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The prison system also doesn’t actually make a net-profit even in the US, it only makes money for specific people (the owners of the private prisons and the systems benefitting off of prisoners’ free labor). The government actually loses billions of dollars per year maintaining prisons 🙃

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• gradual@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It doesn’t need to.

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