I don’t begrudge rich people going to rich people prison, because the point of prison is to remove dangerous people from society not to torture them in a cage. I do begrudge poor people going to poor people prison, because it seems as though these prisons exist as a means of extracting cheap labor from poor and PoC populations. Or outright abusing them - mentally, physically, and sexually - because this kind of brutality generates political rewards.
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Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours agoDo I have to remind everyone the ending of The Wolf of Wall Street?
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Rich people go to ricb people prisons that aren’t really prisons and are better than your house.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
I don’t really care which prison they go to, as long as they also get leased out to do dirty, dangerous, back-breaking manual labor like every other Federal 13th Amendment Labor Slave.
yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
See that’s the deal. Their prison is a mansion by the beach with Alfred doing mojitos.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
I get it. I remember reading that Ghislane Maxwell was “much much happier” with her new accomodations saying that the food was “legions better,” and staff was “responsive and polite.” Isn’t that nice for her?
But the business model of American prisons includes 13th Amendment Slavery, so she might not be as happy with that twist.