If you were wondering what you would be doing when Hitler started building concentration camps and loading up the trains…you’re doing it right now…
I don’t think I’d be browsing social media in the 1930s.
Newspapers were effectively the lemmy of that time
They censored the papers. They can’t censor the lemmy
Lemmy is like the few newspapers that fought till the very end. meanwhile the big social medias have all already fallen in line in advance
They’ve trained people so well that they won’t even need to.
Technology has improved though, giving us the power to yell at people in the comfort of our homes when the news makes us mad.
This was the plan.
I cant still understand how americans decided that putting up prisons and managing them should be privatised.
It began in the 1980s, when Republicans went full-throttle into privatization.
Really, it began it’s current form when other slavery was outlawed, so states started capturing free slaves for “crimes” and leasing them out to their former owners. It’s only a small evolution from there to today.
Slavery is independent of prison ownership. You’re referring to involuntary servitude versus the abolished chattel slavery. Privatization is an additional layer of systemic oppression.
Private prisons may or may not partake in indentured servitude. In addition to participating in the constitutionally protected slavery, they have far more systemic problems than public prisons. The goal is to spend as little as possible to meet minimum legal requirements in order to maximize profit (it’s a business, after all). Many of these for-profit prisons are infrequently or improperly evaluated, leading to far worse conditions than governmentally run prisons. There have also been countless cases of people being denied parole to maintain minimum headcount.
Modern private prisons first emerged in 1984 when the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), now known as CoreCivic, was awarded a contract to take over operation of a jail in Hamilton County, Tennessee.See comment below for link to the origins of private prisons.This is factually incorrect.
https://time.com/5405158/the-true-history-of-americas-private-prison-industry/
Fascinating. They’re much older than that of the sources I’ve read. Thanks for the link!
My point about the difference between public vs private prisons being independent of prisons that participate in indentured servitude still stands. One does not imply the other.
Americans dont run the US. Plutocrats run the US.
Its obvious that for profit prisons are in their interest
Americans didn’t. A few rich ghouls did.
Prison profiteering has been going on since at least when the civil war ended. It’s a crucial foundation for the imperial “economy”.
Damon T. Hininger still their CEO? Asking for a friend.
Send more blue shells 🥰
You don’t need an offshore camp with nebulous legality for deporting immigrants. There’s already somewhere to send them and you don’t care if they go free. Pretty damn useful for domestic opponents though.
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BuildingExpanding a Concentration Camp’He’s building another* concentration camp
Belle of the ranch pointed out it costs more at gitmo because you have to ship everyone and everything there.
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