• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    To be sure. The lawsuit is fine, if you build capacity for the state and they don’t use it, they still need to pay for the costs of having that capacity. Actually creating a situation where a business must increase incarceration to create a profit is actually the potential for a much darker path than a fucking lawsuit.

    The problem is it was privatized at all.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, the privatization is the issue. The state should be directly paying for maintenance of the facilities so there’s no incentive to have more prisoners. Profit shouldn’t be part of the equation at all.

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      5 months ago

      I think we should just let the for profit prison go bankrupt. Fuck em.

      Aren’t capitalist pigs always talking about how they take on all the risk? Then fucking take on some risk, asshole.

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Oh I’m all for radical change up to and including the redistribution of property and the abolishment of common law. I just don’t think that’s happening anytime soon.

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          But this is completely compatible with cappie propaganda. The business took a risk and overextended.