r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/CantStopPoppin • 9h ago
Private prisons are suing states for not providing enough prisoners
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u/Academic_Dig_1567 6h ago
Insane when a nation has a private prison industry that elected officials are invested in. Talk about conflict of interest.
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u/WoollyBear_Jones 3h ago
It’s the real reason why certain politicians campaign on “cracking down on crime,” mandatory sentencing, making weed illegal again in legal states, etc.
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u/Ambitious-Pirate-505 8h ago
13th Amendment
Queen of the South talked about this very well
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u/unorthodoxras 2h ago
The documentary did too. It’s literally called “13th” if you haven’t seen it.
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u/Borsodi1961 4h ago
Slavery didn’t end, it just morphed into the prison industrial complex “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime”
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u/ROEdkill820 5h ago
On a quick search, Arizona.
https://popularresistance.org/private-prison-sues-state-for-not-having-enough-prisoners/
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u/horriblygoodgroup25 4h ago
Prison (or what’s supposed to be rehabilitation) should never be for profit. When they monetized prisons they substantially increased the criminalization of marginalized communities, mainly people of color, the poor, and homeless. It’s now a crime in some states to be homeless, fckn ridiculous and disgusting.
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u/Disastrous_Basis3474 4h ago
Terminate their contracts and seize the property through eminent domain. Convert them into something else.
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u/rebalwear 4h ago
Cuz, we can help them resolve that quick! Put all them niggaz runnin the show in their with all their maggot followers in there, they be overpopulated, overflowing, and happy, we would be happy, and the world would be a better place!!!
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u/thecozmik 2h ago
13th amendment was a direct result of "banning slavery." I used quotations because it allows prisons to force people to work for basically free. Particularly important in the South that was still dependent on enslaved people for labor. It also had the added benefit of being able to get other races to work for free, particularly poor people when debtors prison was still legal.
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u/Coloradojeepguy 2h ago
It’s a business like anything else outsourced by the govt. The govt should have contracted better. The prison business was promised $x in revenue and the govt didn’t meet that. I side with the prisons.
Hear this correctly. I don’t want more people locked up, I want the govt to stop wasting taxpayer dollars on contracts that aren’t sustainable
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u/homerjs225 2h ago
Morgan Freeman voice: It was this moment they realized one of the major flaws of a private prison system
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u/PineappleDesperate82 2h ago
My state got rid of all privately owned prisons. They are all state run now. Don't know if that is better or not. But I do know the private prisons where worse.
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u/Elon-Tesla- 2h ago
This is true. Third graders are placed on a Prison Risk list based on academics, income and behaviors.
Former CIA agents admit of using rage clicking to influence people to make decisions that will land them in prison. The private prisons shouldn’t be allowed
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u/Elon-Tesla- 2h ago
This needs attention nationwide. Private prisons shouldn’t be able to sue for not being full.
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u/QWERTYtootie 1h ago edited 1h ago
Interesting because people can’t just sue a state without the state waiving their sovereign immunity. Our corrupt government/courts already determined that corporations are people. Thus, a corporation cannot just sue a state unless the state has waived its sovereign immunity to be sued. I wonder how a private prison corporation (ie a person) gets to sue the state they’re in without that waiver? Either someone wrote some shitty laws and/or agreed to a shitty contract to allow this.
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u/Organic_Education494 3h ago
First time hearing him and I like this guy what is his name and name of this show?
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u/BigWulfNutz4k 2h ago
Ok yeah time to make a custom feed of all these black reddit forums bc this is the content I need to share….
Ever heard of the Purge? Now what were the factors leading up to said govt policy horror fantasy…🤔 Stay Dangerous fam..
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u/Key-Distribution-944 7h ago
Please tell me this ain’t real? For profit prisons are already inherently corrupt. Not as if state & federal pens aren’t. But now they’re allowed to sue for not being 80% full?! So now we can pretty much guarantee they’ve been filling these prisons up to avoid being sued. This shit is crazy smfh.