• Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
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    whoever thought private prisons are a good idea needs to die painfully, and so does everyone who helped create them

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      Some people are. In spite of all the terrible news I read everyday I still think most of us are good most of the time, we’re all just being subjugated by the worst of our species.

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          Bad people are motivated by ego, power, greed, and fear. The ones at the top running things are those who desire external control because they are ego and fear driven. The exact kind of people you don’t want running the show.

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    Because the money they’re paid isn’t so they can provide for the prisoners in their care…

    It’s so they’re ok running a corrupt system that we’ve known for decades isn’t actually fixing anything.

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    How is a company supposed to make money off someone that’s incarcerated? They don’t have much disposable income…

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Do people really need an entire article to answer the question in the headline?

    Money. The answer is always money.