TIL: How Private Prisons Sued The State of Arizona for Not Having Enough Prisoners

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• Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What a phenomenal country to allow this sort of thing to occur at all

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• Nobody@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cruelty is ~~the point,~ profitable.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like they didn’t fulfill a legal contract. And everybody blaming everything except the people who signed on the dotted line.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, I’m pretty sure most people here are blaming both the signatories of the contract: the slavery profiteers and the state that keeps abusing prisoners as well

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the people who signed on the dotted line.

    Like…the prison?

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• Lightrider@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuckingcapitalists

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• yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In unrelated news we’ve been hearing rumblings of outlawing homelessness…

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• half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only medium author I’ve blocked. High probably of bullshit.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Couldn’t find another source about the lawsuit, but [here’s (prisonlegalnews.org/…/report-finds-two-thirds-pri…) an article about the quotas

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