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by mycologos 860 days ago
Prison labor is indeed a multi-billion dollar industry, but I question the idea that it drives "a lot of incarceration". For better or for worse, Americans seem to be pretty OK with how incarceration currently works: across almost every political or racial group, most people think the current amount of incarceration is either "too little" or "about right". In total, less than 1/3 of Americans think it's "too much" [1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/12/06/u-s-publi...