Arkansa backwater jails ftw, yet again. If I was going to prison for a long time in Arkansas (or Louisiana), I would commit suicide for sure.

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      It’s neither about justice nor revenge. It’s about people as commodities (read: slaves) that states and private prisons can use for near-free labor. As long as the slaves can and will work, they don’t give a rats ass about the slaves. If the slaves start revolting or dying, and it affects the bottom line, then they will do something.

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        Can confirm. I made around 30 dollars a month (back in the early 2000s), and I gladly worked because it was an opportunity to GO OUTSIDE. Sometimes even outside the walls.

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      It’s a cruelty system. I know many pro-death penalty people who are really angry that criminals are not getting their throat slit on site, then their slow death recorded for the enjoyment of pro-death penalty people crime deterrence purposes.

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    Who in their right mind started to allow running infrastructure, but especially prisons and hospitals, as for-profit businesses? 😵‍💫😵‍💫

    Isn’t it blatantly obvious that it can only ever be detrimental to society?