The American penal system is a racket, existing to provide the state with free labor, to feed state-connected private entities taxpayer-subsidized profits, and to brutalize its incarcerated population as a deterrent to challenging those in power. It’s completely divorced from the rehabilitation of its individual prisoners or ameliorating the effects of crime on society at large.
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Reply to I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers. by marshall_project
The American penal system is a racket, existing to provide the state with free labor, to feed state-connected private entities taxpayer-subsidized profits, and to brutalize its incarcerated population as a deterrent to challenging those in power. It’s completely divorced from the rehabilitation of its individual prisoners or ameliorating the effects of crime on society at large.