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Comment on Since colonial times Australia has been an incarceration nation where lock ’em up is preferred to rehabilitation – Julianne Schultz

not_that_guy05@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I mean do we in the US have rehabilitation prisons? No I don’t we do, shit companies even look down on people with a record.

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LineNoise@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We’ve actually got an even bigger private prison issue than the US by proportion.

Nearly 40 per cent of Victoria’s prisoner population is housed in three privately managed prisons – Port Philip Prison, Ravenhall Correctional Centre and Fulham Correctional Centre. As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world.

https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2019/06/28/1375605/victorias-prison-system-rising-costs-and-population-little-accountability

The lobby doesn’t have quite the same financial clout just on population size but it’s a significant factor in Australia’s modern handling of the issue.

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- not_that_guy05@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wtf…
  
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