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by reactordev 188 days ago
>Prisons should not be allowed to be a profit center.

That ship sailed post American Civil-War. We've made it part of our culture. Every prison charges their inmates to be there. Per Diems. It used to be tax payers but... they found out they could double dip.

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This is the kind of thing it's relatively viable to address legislatively, and which would be well within the overton window if it were given more attention.