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by pengaru 1045 days ago
> I hear this for profit prisons repeatedly endlessly but want to point out only 8% of prisons in the US are for profit that vast majority are public institutions

Not only is that number wrong, you're also ignoring the myriad ways prisoners are monetized. It's not strictly a privatized prisons game.

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Like the price of phone calls, mail, and even water. It's all absolutely criminally exploitative and government gets a cut of those private contractor's profits.