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by naewonawonga 1974 days ago
Prisons do not actually have rehabilitation as a meaningful incentivized goal.
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Maybe so. But the people paying for the prison certainly do. And they have the purse strings to impose things on their vendors.

The profit motive cuts both ways.

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>> But the people paying for the prison certainly do.

That's quite a leap.