And then last night I saw a story about a private youth detention centre (i.e. children's jail) in Pennsylvania where the owners paid judges millions of dollars to lock up kids for up to a year on the basis of minor transgressions, for example, writing an online page mocking their school principal (again, so much for American free speech). The payments were due to the fact that the more inmates there were, the more money for the prison contractor got: Viva Capitalism! On top of that, the kids were kept in beyond the length of the sentences given on the discretion of the prison employees. This is the kind of capitalist nightmare the far right want to turn the whole country into. — Baden
He was no more a product of capitalism than any other sociopathic kidnapper. — Hanover
Hard to imagine that a situation in which there is a profitable market for throwing children into prison isn't interrelated to the unrestrained ideal of Capitalism. — Maw
A communist regime with a corrupt and abusive judicial system where people are murdered and abused en masse is really hard to imagine.
It's hard to take these posts seriously. — Hanover
The vast majority of prisons are state run.But you shouldn't need to wait for these kind of abuses to understand that imprisoning people for profit will inevitably result in greedy people taking advantage of the system and causing harm. — Baden
Whose opinion are you mocking? Is there someone who doesn't find the situation as reprehensible as you? — Hanover
So, OK, you tell me then what is the ideal model of a prison system you would like to see in the US and how does it differ from the one you have now? — Baden
By the way Hanover, you know the more you show how much you hate us doing the superior European thing, the more I'm going to do it? You do know that, right? :hearts: — Baden
It's not us vs. them. — Baden
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