Largest prison population both in absolute size AND per capita. Also, random fact, their constitution allows prisoners to be forced into slave labour. Also, another random fact, their prisons are run for profit. None of these facts are related of course!
Next you’re going to tell me that these for-profit prisons lobby the government for harsher prison sentences for things like cannabis possession.
Only for people that are black or poor.
Not to nitpick but not ALL prisons in the US are for-profit. They should be illegal though.
Fun fact - other countries that have for-profit prisons include the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Chile, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, South Korea and Thailand.
This won’t do much since most of these prisons operate under state jurisdiction, but in 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to stop the United States Department of Justice from renewing further contracts with private prisons.
True, however there are bs for-profit elements to even the non-for-profit prisons. Predatory costs to calling / commissary / etc. that still benefit companies when the US imprisons more people.
Absolutely. We need a prison reform.
Even “not for profit” prisons are lining millionaires pockets with infrastructure and maintenance contracts.
And house arrest is being used for mass incarceration of people being ACCUSED before conviction. The punishment can be more severe before conviction.
And many states let private companies charge accused people up to $40 a day for the ankle bracelets.
Did you also watch that Vice documentary?
Wtf Do they get it back if found not guilty? Do you have a source?
Uhh…nope.
Also…about 25% of the people incarcerated in America aren’t even convicted of a crime yet.
Even if they’re found innocent, it’s likely already cost them their job or made it so they are so far behind on bills from not working that it becomes next to impossible to climb out from under
Only about 8% of the US prison population is in for-profit prisons.
That’s still about 96,344 people. Which is nearly double the total prison population of Spain.
And how many of these other prisons offer up their prisoners as extremely cheap labor to businesses that ARE for profit?
Listen I live in the USA, but if thats your best pushback to all those facts - should tell you what a dire state we are in. And prisons that aren’t for profit still send out prisoners to for-profit industries to work, so it’s kind of a moot point.
california spending 100k+ per prisoner but renting them out for pennies is one of the insane unsustainable aspects of the system and then going and saying “we can’t afford to let them out” is mind numbing.
The whole circus is just to keep wages down and arrest anybody folks don’t want in their shitty suburb.
I’m also in the US and I’m aware of all of this.
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Reminder that the US have never abolished slavery for prisoners and have one of the largest slave population in the world.
Yep… And every time there’s an employment issue for the agricultural industry, they whip out the prisoners…
However to the prisoner’s credit: They do an absolutely terrible job at whatever it is they’re doing.
Why? What are they going to do… Fire you? Jail you? You have no incentive at all to do the job well as a prisoner.
Bonus is by doing a horrific job it makes employers less likely to actually request prison workforces.
Tha fuck are you talking about?
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Nice to see that even here - a shitposting forum - whenever anybody posts anything negative about America, yanks can’t handle it.
I love how it’s full of people whining about having left reddit to escape this shit like bruh this is the fediverse
They made it a business. How many places in the world have private incarceration facilities?
Many countries have private prisons.
Oh! Many countries do it, so it’s fine! Noted.
Not saying it’s fine, just that stupid questions deserve stupid answers.
Then go find go find a stupid question to give your stupid answers to.
For-profit prisons are a fucking scourge, and they’re way too common.
I already have though… I hope you have a better day, friend.
I’ve heard some prisons have minimum prisoner requirements, which is incredibly fucked up
How does that play out? Do they try to extend sentences? Can they try to influence intake?
I remember there was a scandal in Pennsylvania where a judge was paid to funnel juveniles into a private detention center
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash
:( That’s not nice
And an huge colonial empire ( europe/japan/korea )
The US isn’t a colonial empire.
The US is one of the biggest colonial empires in history.
Then it should be easy to provide an example of a US colony.
Nato countries, easy.
You can’t seriously believe that, come on.
You can’t seriously believe that nato countries are really indipendent. The USA choose single ministers from certain countries and prime minister needs usa approval.
Are you implying the US chose the prime ministers of Hungary and Turkey?
You wut mate?
Look up, hmmm what’s a good one… Oh oh, Northern Marianas Islands. Go go go
The Northern Mariana Islands are a US commonwealth, they voted for and easily chose it in 1975.
Gosh that sounds an awful lot like colonialism with extra steps. Check out their labor law history. It’s a real fun read.
Why the negativity and sarcasm?
How can America have 25% of the world’s prison population of the entire country doesn’t make up even 10% of the world’s population?
Well see, that’s kinda the point of the post.
We’re “the land of the free” but also the land of the most non-free people.
Non free people with the best Free speach laws
Is there a community that exclusively shits on the US on the threadiverse?
-be the “first in the world” -everywhere you go yell “USA! USA! USA!” -sparking people’s curiosity and they look into your garden -they find a dystopian horror show, a land where billionaires are kings, millions deprived of liberty, hundred millions depraved of healthcare, an ever increasing tumour of fascists group that wish for some women and minorities to have fewer rights
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You can’t have the biggest running circus without everyone starring and complaining and debating.
Tell me you’ve learned everything you know about the US from 13 year olds online without telling me you learned everything you know from 13 year olds online.
he’s not wrong though. like, the mass shooting yesterday was something like the 340th so far this year? the place is fucking nuts
Now remove gang violence.
hmmm so what, only like 20 then? you’re right, that’s absolutely an acceptable amount of mass shootings in the first half of the year.
totally normal and something every country experiences. my bad.
And of those remaining “only like 20”, how many were random acts of violence?
We’re so close to getting to the infinitesimally small statistical likelihood of this happening.
Oh and when you’re done with that, remove cities too.
Lemmygrad as a whole enjoys it
Is that in between trips to the gulag or starving or?
I left Reddit to escape bullshit like this
And I left reddit to escape idiots like you. If I can handle being disappointed, so can you. Shut the fuck up.
Ahh there it is
You came to the wrong fucking place then.
You came to the wrong fucking place then.
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Me too. The “America bad” thing got old on Reddit. I Hope it doesn’t take off here too.
See most places are bad but America should be better. It presents itself as the better. It does not always live up to that better and so those people who want us to be better keep reminding us we have a lot of work to do. I can tell you personally how horrible America can be but I don’t think you want to hear that from a Lakota.
Hi. As a not American, I can say Americans get made fun of a lot by not Americans. We like to share these jokes with each other online, as not Americans also use the internet.
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Canada. I’d appreciate any joke. Personal favourites include our Prime Minister’s blackface, or changing the words of the national anthem to be “our home on native land”, or suggesting that we have two official languages: English and Chinese.
Never gets old
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If you don’t want to hear about America being bad, don’t go to the same places as people who live in reality.
I don’t deny the problems with this country. I vote to try and make this country better. Seeing the same posts about how horrible this country is gets old after a while. A majority of Reddit and this site would agree with the flaws of the US. The people who really need to hear this stuff aren’t on here.
Pointing out flaws in the country shouldn’t be seen as a personal attack or critique. Many of the victims of America are it’s citizens (e.g., the incarcerated).
Nationalism just twists the government into our personal identity to manipulate us. Making fun of the government/system is healthy.
This isn’t “Americans dumb” content, which attacks the actual citizens and understandably may weigh on someone.
I’m extremely happy to see a real conversation happening. This is actually worth reading, and not just another idiotic shouting match.
There’s a difference between “America has serious problems,let’s get to work fixing them” and “America is inherently evil and can’t be saved (and you’re an idiot at best, a right-wing plant at worst for thinking otherwise)”. The former fires people up to start making progess, the latter shuts people down or causes them to tune out of politics altogether.
And to be blunt, this particular meme feels like it’s falling more in the second category than the first, at least to me.
The thing is, America (many Americans anyway) are continually screaming at everyone online about how America is the best country in the world and everywhere else is a shithole - despite very few measures supporting that.
If you insist on telling everyone you’re the best, when you have so many serious flaws, people are going to mock you for it.
I take it as “America has good ideals that it should live up to.”
Might be pollyanna-ing… almost certainly am, but I’m trying to take this Independence Day to appreciate what we’ve got, what my ancestors came to this country for, and that the maintenance of it, and the realization of its ideals, is a lot of work we’ve got to do yet, and will always be with us.
You mean you vote to feel better about yourself, to try to sweep any guilt or bad feeling under the rug, and you feel upset when you get reminded electoral politics means jackshit in the US (and in most liberal plutocraties)
You mean don’t go to places where children spew nonsense their loser parents tell them because they also made the choice to be degenerate fucking bums their entire lives?
Then when they’re middle age and still have nothing to show for it they attempt to influence the entire system to change despite not even being able to improve their own position in life?
Tell us more about how 60% of the population lives paycheck to paycheck because they’re just lazy, and not because they were born to the wrong parents in a shitty system that only rewards worthless cunts who succeed by stepping on the throats of the people who do all the work.
Wait do you think people that do the work never receive the benefit and become wealthy?
Are you completely unfamiliar with how most millionaires are made?
Or are you just a useless communists that think capitalism is bad and this conversation just ends here.
It will, because leftists love to cry and moan on the internet.
We have that percentage because we actually lock up our criminals, unlike Sweden or Germany.
Ah yes, Germany and Sweden. The last bastions for criminals all around the world. Oh wait, I’m 6-7 times as likely to be murdered in the US then those two places (Source).
Are you stupid?
You didn’t have to ask
Sure. Definitely nothing to do with the fact that in your country, locking people up is SUPER profitable for prisons and a few other industries so certain institutions lobby to make sure more people keep getting locked up.
