When I was in college, 300,000 people were in prisons across the United States. Today it’s over 2.3 million. The real crime here is the advent of the private prison industry. Billions of dollars are made off human suffering and injustice.
Scott Hechinger
 @ScottHech
21 Nov 2020
Imagine. You’re locked in a confined space w/ dozens. 23 hrs movement restricted. No masks. Forced to share toilet. Either no soap or soap you can’t afford. Many likely have symptoms. Complain: you’re retaliated against. Medical care denied. This is US jails/prisons right now.

Nov 22, 2020 · 6:56 AM UTC

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Thank Joe Biden for it
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That's a lockdown, why the spread?
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Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
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Biden voted for the bill that accelerated it, Bill Clinton signed it and Kamala Harris enforced it as AG of California which you should remember Tulsi Gabbard pointing it out on the same stage as you and a few weeks later Harris quit because of the backlash. #irony
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Shameful denial of humanity. I suppose it’s the same with the care homes “industry”, so many older and vulnerable people effectively locked up and left alone. And it’s beginning to happen here Across the Pond, for where corporate US leads, the UK lackey is sure to follow.
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The cop arrest quotas is meant to prevent private prisons from suing the state for not having enough prisoners.
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Only 8% of imprisoned people are in private prisons. These prisons are a bigger problem in some states and at the federal level, and private prison vendors are problematic, but overwhelmingly mass incarceration is driven by politics not profits. sentencingproject.org/public…
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Rapidly approaching concentration camp conditions, if not already there, and with slave labour a pre-condition (13th Ammendment).
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QUITE SIMILAR TO MY COUNTRY!
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