• ansiz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It costs what $30k a year to keep someone in prison? Great use to taxpayer money for that $100 theft.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It unironically is a great use of money, if it wasn’t they wouldn’t do it. Prison Labor is basically slavery, and just as absurdly profitable, plus private prisons make more money with more inmates and can lobby as such.