Always important to remember

Jun 9, 2020 1:32 AM

I know you’re making a point here, but #3 explains some of the call center customer service I’ve been getting in my life

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

Why is Nortel and Northern Telecom listed separately?

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

USA, the dystopian novel that writes itself

5 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 2

Who knew, the US never got rid of plantations. Just turned them into prison labor camps instead!

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Gotta go after the prison system along with the police

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Watch 13th on netflicks

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Just watched it. HO-LY FUCK.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm scarred that if Covid decimates prisons they are going to look to fill those beds in for profit prisons

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I’m a sheet metal worker and a member of the sheet metal workers union. Everything we install must be made by a union shop in USA. That...

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Is why we need strong workers unions in America because with regulations like that company’s couldn’t insource work to prisoners.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's roughly 1.5 days off your time, with pay on your books. Less time with income. They deserve better income.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Prisons should pay minimum wage for external work. It’s not fair for companies to compete against prison w/ slave labor.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

This is what corporate control looks like and we have never as a society been honest with ourselves about it

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Well done America

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

The following goods are brought to you by slave labor: denim, rice, cotton, electronics, nuts, chocolate, drugs, prostitutes, fish, etc...

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

All that profit. This too is one of the reasons we have out of control police forces. The profit incentive.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

It’s called unchecked capitalism

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Prisoners here with the potential to rehabilitate are taught skills to get a job once they've completed their course and sentence.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Former attorney for a major marijuana company. We shared the same powerful lobbyist as private prison trade group. They don’t care about 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Also, Jeff sessions legit hates weed. The private prison industry was a major contributor, especially via ALEC. But, separate issues

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

2/2 weed. Arrests remained same in conservative states that legalized. Private prisons also make $$$ housing alien detainees.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Colorado removed this “loophole” from the Constitution of Colorado in 2018. We’re trying to do better!

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Doesn’t the National constitution supersede an individual state’s?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only when it's stricter.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, but at least now our state constitution is no longer complicit

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Stop me if I'm wrong, but I think you guys need to completely overthrow your government and start again. A whole new set of amendments.

5 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 9

USA is like a bronze giant on clay legs

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

If this were all true, sure. But it's not.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Keep the core principles of the amendments, but... clean all of this crap that got snuck in there when nobody was looking.

5 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Unfortunately that's not how it works, such an undertaking would destroy the value of the society. You think it's bad now?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 8

Would be interesting to see if the US just implodes and crumbles or actually becomes a legit good place.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm sure that's what the Loyalists said.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Look, you guys can do whatever, maybe someone of value will rise from the ashes. It's not the 18th century anymore though, the collateral

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Damage would be absolutely catastrophic, guaranteed to end Americas run as the #1 super power. I really really suggest you try harder going

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

The more conventional route before going nuclear, thats not rly something youll be able to stop once started

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Your name is very fitting

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You think the collateral damage of the revolution wasn't absolutely catastrophic? Because it was.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is it optional to work, like can you just serve your time in the prison instead of on a farm working?

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Technically, yes. But that can mean not getting any 'luxuries' from the commissary. And what that means will depress, but not surprise you.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Optional" is kind of a loaded term when you're in a complex full of killers and rapists and given the opportunity to get away for a while.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No. You do what they tell you. They'll 'volunteer' you for Big Bubba Buttreemers cell, or just solitary.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

It is completely optional

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Jesus fuck, America is broken beyond repair.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

I'd argue it's working exactly as intended...

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah but whose intention was it?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not just America, the modern world needs to slow down and reevaluate priorities. Rethink our code of morality. But no, the system chugs on.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I agree, but America is going down FAST.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Some do. But the system does like to chug on.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

wait so if prisons aren't "full" then the state has to pay millions?? what kinda backwards ass contract.

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The prisions don't want to run at part capacity. They have to get investors to pay for the construction until they start making revenue. 1/²

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If they can't guarantee that the prison will be filled and profitable. Then the risk of investment is too high. So no prison is made2/²

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

This would mean that when existing prison are filled and more people are sent with no bed open. The prison/state will have to release people

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Then the public gets mad that there are low level criminals no longer in prison. So they write to their govner to fix it.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

The people that signed these contracts on the government side should pay these costs themselves.

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

I'm more curious if someone can get the contract and litigate it, people still commit crimes but to BS crimes and throw ppl in kinda lame

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How the fuck is it safe for an offender to work call center while incarcerated? Whose bright idea was that?

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

Yeah like I call customer service and I covet connected to a sex offender? Thanks.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

If they say something they are not supposed to, they get the shit beat out of them and a stint in solitary..

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They're probably low security status. Not everyone is in jail for rape and murder. The vast majority are in their for something small

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

I know that. I’m questioning the entire process.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

like stealing some pick n mix

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Or having a dice that has 7 on one side.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

One of the best special features ever made btw

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I know of a place that hires prison workers to separate recycling. I was told to not worry about using the garbage or recycling bins 1/?

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Outside my building, because of covid they are not letting the prisoners out so they shut down recycling center and they are just dumpin 2/?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

In the landfill now. ? 3/3

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Is there anything we can buy that isnt made from slave labor or abused workers?

5 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

Yes. Fucking everything. This post is FULL of lies about manufacturing being done by prisoners. Completely made up bullshit.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 9

So you checked all of their sources and have proven them to be less than factual? What an incredible investigative journalist you are!

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Basically just craftsman kind of things. Which are generally in low supply due to time for attention to detail, which makes price skyrocket.

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

A lot of foreign businesses have manufacturing in the states. But it's a foreign company so people assume it's made elsewhere.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not cheaply! Capitalism is a nightmare.

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That's not a loophole or a bug, it's a feature.

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It's more than that slavery is abandoned in the US except for people in prison. 13th amendment.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Land of the free"

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

to be fair. the loophole is needed otherwise sentiences of forced public service would be unconstitutional. however to also be fair, there>

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

is a much better way to carve out that particular exception without leaving it open to make space labor okay as long as you imprison first

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I'm not from the US, can't they refuse to work?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yes, but it does pay (however little) and many prisons will stop providing amenities (TV, store access, whatnot) or be punitive(illegal).

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Ticket resolved: As Designed.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dear America: What the actual fuck, every fucking day, what the fuck?! -Sincerely, everyone else

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

$$$ is all that matters. Oh and individual rights > the common good as long as those rights are conservative. Fuck the Electoral college.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OK. Let's fucking break it then.

5 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

- Todd Howard on 'Designing a Nation'

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can understand labor in community service... planting trees, cleaning litter, painting graffiti.. but privatised corporate labor is BS.

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Not entirely. I see no reason they can't work. It gives them job skills and earns money. But less than a dollar a day is a hard no.

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We want to stop repeat offenders right? They need job skills and trade skills. And it's not healthy being locked in a cell 23 hrs a day.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I absolutely agree. But the means are more important sometimes than the ends. I.e. working for a community you've harmed rather than a

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Corporation that's harmful. (I.e. Only exploiting your cheap labor)

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But if the labor wasn't so cheap it wouldn't be exploiting cheap labor is what I'm saying. It provides job training, skills, etc while still

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I get that the state gets to use the labour for state maintenance, but selling prison labour is insane. I wonder how many countries does it.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I'm sure prison is boring as shit so a chance to do something productive is an incentive for good behavior. Don't incentivize jailing people

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As reference, I was a C/O at a minimum sec prison... the inmates volunteered for outdoor work crews and generally enjoyed getting out a bit

5 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 0

If not they generally did in house W/C i.e. ... inmate laundry, cooking, yard upkeep etc.

5 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 0

Have you ever witnessed the corporate slavery referenced here?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I hadn't. But I will say... I've trained in other states etc and we're taught HIGHLY on de-escalation in WA. Other prisons its not as high

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

A priority. And I never worked directly for any private prisons. Only state ran institutions.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Yeah I can support all that stuff. Plus doing community service type things can help with rehabilitation because, well it gives them ties 1/

5 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

2/ to the community. But forcing them to do work for some corporation is the opposite of that and pisses me off so much.

5 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

Totally agree. Keeping inmates occupied and productive is good. But noit at their expense or for corporate profit. The way I saw it doing w

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

IDK if it is considered community service but CA uses inmates as firefighters. they get paid very little and put in high risk situations.

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Those are coveted opportunities in the prisons and allow you to serve your sentence faster based on a docu report I saw on them years ago.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I was wondering about if it was volenteer based but ran out of text space. I didn't know about it reducing sentences though which is nice.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, our prison did the same. But basically they weren't in any harms way they dug and fire breaks etc and it was also voluntary.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's good. Forests fires can spread so quickly it's never completely safe. It's still really physical work and the pay seems too low. :/

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But also this was 15 yrs ago & Washington State I worked for...so we never saw fires like in Cali...so my knowledge is very limited.

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I figured it was volunteer base but wasn't sure. It's sounds like the program works well but it still doesn't pay much $ for how hard it is.

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And they can't even get a job as a firefighter when they get out of prison. It is ridiculous.

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I've heard they are passing bills to fix that. It'd still be hard to get a firefighter job when they have prisoners that will work for less.

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That's more of a correlation not equaling causation example. Cause by that same argument it could be said civilian volunteer firefighters

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Are in essence taking jobs. But the reality is you don't need 200 firefighters every day... but you do need the help when things get bad.

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I don't think it was ever a 'loophole'

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Whole Foods gets it Tilapia from outside of the USA. Used to be a seafood purchaser.

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Colorado recently banned private prisons

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Not to mention 3com and TWA no longer exist.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

ATT is union, ain’t no way the union is allowing the call center be replaced by prisoners. Wonder if this whole post is BS

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AT&T contracts out to other agencies. I worked for 2 temp companies doing AT&T tech support and got paid way less than actual AT&T employees

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That’s only allowed during times of growth and Corp has to actively hire unless show contractors are needed temporarily. Post says since 93

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Sounds like ATT is lying to their unions, shocking, they totally screwed my FIL's retirement after 35 yrs there.

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He started with MaBell and went through the Lucent merger to end being SW. They Royally screwed him. Had to work as a mechanic after retirin

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was contracted by a temp agency that was contracted by another temp agency that was contracted by AT&T. To help cover up how many of us

5 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

We’re doing tech support for AT&T. I knew people that worked there for 10+ years. That’s a long time to be growing.

5 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

Were you in a private prison at the time?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No I wasn’t. I was just pointing out that large companies do a lot of things they Rent supposed to or things they say they aren’t doing

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

$12/lb for tilapia is a crime all on its own

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Tilapia is a crime all on its own.

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If tilapia didn't make me sick, I'd say it's worth it. Best tasting thing I've ever had in my mouth. I seem to be allergic to it, though. :(

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Try literally any other fish in the sea; they're all better than tilapia.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There’s no accounting for taste. When I look at my past romantic partners, the tilapia makes sense.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tilapia is the name some restaurants use when they can’t ID the fish. In farms, the tanks are so overcrowded it’s sickening. I never eat it

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I said the exact same thing.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They use tilapia in striped bass farms to eat all the other fish shit so the tanks are clean.. Then sell the tilapia to be eaten

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Tilapia is fed chicken shit from my understanding

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tilapia is literally trash catfish. It's about the worst fish you can buy that's still TECHNICALLY edible. Poor nutrition, awful taste.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

It’s whole foods. They up-charge water by putting asparagus stalks in it

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

If somebody buys it, it's a good idea!

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Tastes like mud

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Coasts Rican Mudfish

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Catfish tastes more like mud. Tilapia tastes like nothing. I prefer catfish hands down.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Blue/channels cats are delicious. They eat more live feed than farm raised which is a mix of corn/animal meal

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I catchy a few last weekend. Fried em up and made fish tacos. They were so good.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah, tilapia only tastes like whatever its cooked with.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

That's why we call it Whole Paycheck

5 years ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 0

Fucking right.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cheese is a fair price if I didn’t know a wholesale #r

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I worked there for 3.5 years...the pay was fucken shit and the raises were nonexistent. Fuck whole foods!

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Tilapia are the aquatic equivalent of cockroaches.

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I mean shrimp are. But tilapia is a nasty Fucking fish anyway. I had to fillet them in the market I used to work at. Hate em now.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

How are they different from other fish

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They just are. Lol. But realistically they are raised to be able to grow in pretty much mud and detritus so they tend to be quite nasty.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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Lightly fried fish fillets?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Have you ever seen a tilapia whole, it's a nasty fugly ass fish with spines that stick in you if you grab em wrong. Fuck those bastards

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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5 years ago (deleted Jul 21, 2020 7:16 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

As I said above, i used to sell seafood in a small market, my most hated fish was by far tilapia. Catfish a close second though,

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fillets were fine but whole those bastards were the worst, I've been stabbed more times than I can count.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I only ever get the Japanese brand. Even then, it’s still not $12/lb

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Do you think we would still eat lobsters if they lived on land?

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Good point

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yea, why not?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The fish that eats it’s own poop.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They have Tilapia on the space station, they feed them astronaut poop in case they run out of food.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Almost all farm fish eat their own poop

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Prison reform is as needed as police reform

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The states as a whole need a reform, and unfortunately they're no the only part of the world that does, and I'm not just talking about china

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Id say you need USA reform

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Baby steps...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The whole system is a shit show. It needs to be dismantled so we can start over

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They go hand in hand

5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Don't forget people reform!

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Sounds like you guys need a revolution.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We need a people reform.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*laughs in asshole*

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The whole country needs a reform

5 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

No fucking kidding. I had no idea the prison workforce operated like that.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

People not knowing this is a problem worth reforming itself.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As an American I promise you we can do one thing at a time at most.

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

Revolt? Revolt is one single thing.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And thats the one they know how to do! Because its mostly being angry, shouting and breaking things near them.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

AT MOST.

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

And barely that.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Prison reform, police reform, education reform, insurance reform, health care reform, isp reform, there are so many legal scams here.

5 years ago | Likes 116 Dislikes 0

cradle to the grave monopolies and scams if you take a moment to think & evaluate.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Corporate reform, religious reform, government reform. Specifically, get corporations and religions OUT of government.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It’s almost like they don’t protect our right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness like we stated a government should in the DoI

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ngl from over the pond the US have looked like a dumpster fire for over a decade. Glad you guys came around to see it.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

It's almost like the profit motive of capitalism is the problem.

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

You spelled "almost /s" wrong.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Profit > People is how we got here. And why the greedy people are continuing to win.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Time to overthrow the government

5 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

Yeah - and you see Antifa mentioned with the rioting. The rest of the population should be mad as hell, too. Not yet..?

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

There's no official "antifa HQ" or government so it's really hard to prove you're not involved, it's an excuse to arrest people.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Sounds like pro-antifa propaganda. That still legal in the states?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So yeah, just like there's only a couple bad cops at the riot, I'm sure there's only a couple bad antifa. LOL

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Isn’t ANTIFA an ideology doesn’t it stand for anti fascist? I truly have no clue.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just hit the reset, might be easier.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And political reform, and education reform, and healthcare reform, and labor reform, it gets dizzying

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

How the fuck do we have 2.4 million people in prison. Jesus Christ.

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Right? Especially with over 8 million crimes committed annually. You'd think it would be more.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 6

Because the Government needs more profit Damn it!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

because the rich control everything that gives money and power. America especially is so fucked up. Devils' playground.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

are you trying to cause a riot with that statement?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought it would be more

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Capitalism

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In whole Europe there are about 1.6 million people in prison.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Because you're a shit nation controlled by shit people

5 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 4

God Damnit hey buddy, hey ... Listen here .... No one makes us see our own failures .... No one!

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Not that surprising really. Its less than 1 percent of the population. Im surprised its not higher with the amount that is let slide.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Prison is designed to keep you there or have you come back because you can't make anything of yourself after you get out. Its terrible.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There are more slaves in today's prison system than the highest level of slavery in pre-abolition America.

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That's less than 1%. For comparison, about 1% are psychopaths.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ever hear of the "War on drugs"? As if you can fight drugs lol it was a war against the people.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Land of the free. (disclaimer: land may not be free and 1% of its populace can be incarcerated at any time, may contain nuts)

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Its easy when you make budget cuts to education making students more likely to give up and resort to crime. It also with the help of cops

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

People bad.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

as somebody who works in a fed prison, its not some basic drug charges, most are murder, terrorism, murder for hire, sex assault

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Land of the free - highest percentage of population incarcerated world wide! 0.7% of Americans are in prison, it's insane...

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This post is literally the reason.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Biggest prison population in the world. Or highest rate of incarceration. Idr.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Because your country is designed that way.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

More than China.

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More than any other nation... by a lot.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Did you not just read how?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

‘Mercia!!! (I’m so ashamed of us fir manyyyy things. Including this)

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You live in a dystopia that teaches its citizens the lie of "we're the greatest country in the world." Not enough question the reality.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Because you have privat prisons. The whole idea is really stupid. Prisons shouldnt run for profit

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Because ppl on imgur get furious when white collar crimes dont lead to 15 yr sentences, any crime they dont like doesnt give life, etc.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Need the cheap labor yo.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

(gestures to the post) money

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Slavery.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Half the population of my province.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Yeah, really land of the free ain’t it...

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

More slave labour = more profit

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About 1% of US population. The US jails more citizens per 100,000 people than any other country on the planet. More than China, Russia, etc

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

America needs liberation from its corporate overlords

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

This. Stop punching right and left. Punch up.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Weren't you reading? Lol

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

That's.... almost half my country's population...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Around the same as the population of our capital's metropolitan area and the next two largest cities combined, then some spare change on top

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You mean, "How the fuck do we, in fucking 2020, have 2.4 million slaves, almost all of them people of color?"

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

Black people are disproportionately represented by 5.1 times but are not the majority. 62% of the prison population are white. 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I agree with the sentiment, but it's vital to have all the facts otherwise legitimate arguments can be diminished with semantics. 2/2

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Because it's lucrative.

5 years ago | Likes 351 Dislikes 1

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5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

People over profits. That's the way it's been for a long time; we just turned a blind eye to it until now

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Watched. It makes sense that people want to “defund” the police. I just wish they used a different term. It grabs attention but people 1/2

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Are using it as a way to say “they want to eliminate all police”.

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Bc those people are idiots. Defund means to take money from, not eliminate, or we’d say eliminate police.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I have seen plenty of videos of people chanting "no more police"

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Plenty of folks saying abolish the police too

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Prisons make money off prisoners. Look up the occasion when a prison threatened to shut down if they didn't get enough new prisoners.

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

In a better world a prison shutting down would be seen as a good thing.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I hate that it isn't

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The penal system is absolutely abhorrent, partly because of people in charge. Ever heard of Kids for Cash?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It sounds familiar, I think I remember it... But not what it was

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Basically, two judges were getting kickbacks for sending high school kids to jail between yrs of 2000-2007. Real fucked up shit.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Watch 13th on Netflix

5 years ago | Likes 119 Dislikes 1

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5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just watched the other day, very compelling and sheds a lot of light on this issue

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

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5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*need to

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Should be a required watch in high school

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or Just Mercy with Jamie Foxx

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think it’s free to stream now

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Correct we watched it for free lastnight, it was very good and very infuriating. Coming from an all white town it’s hard to comprehend

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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Well police have illegal quotas. They fill those quotas with whatever brown people they find. Mandatory mins and 3-strikes make absurd time

5 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 11

Suuuure they do. It's honestly scary how many think this is true.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Sort of on board with 3 strikes, aside from 3 being entirely arbitrary, but mandatory minimum sentences need to be gone, and pardoned.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 15

Prior convictions are already considered during sentencing. 3 strike laws are arbitrary, often surprisingly ambiguous, and unneeded.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Watch the John Oliver on 3-strikes it’s abhorrent

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

I can only find him speaking about mandatory minimums. Would take a link, if you have one.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

https://youtu.be/pDVmldTurqk life sentence for stealing a cookie as a 3rd strike

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So crimes that would yield 3 years of prison time should yield life in prison, as long as they were committed three separate times?

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

It’s literally any 3rd crime is a life sentence

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

3rd strike only applies to violent felonies. Otherwise, yes. How many times does someone need to demonstrate they can't operate in society?

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https://youtu.be/pDVmldTurqk dude stole A cookie for his 3rd strike...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In California, burglary or possession of drugs counts as violent. I believe in a prison system built on reform, not punishment.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

People can change, given the opertunity

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