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BComplex

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4. This country REALLY needs to get rid of "for profit" prisons. They have NO reason to help people get

Reply to Indykatie (Reply #2)

Thu May 21, 2020, 03:05 PM

May 2020

discharged when they've been behaving themselves. I have a close friend who is in a for-profit prison for his narcotic entrepreneurial efforts. They hardly give them anything to eat, in order to cut costs. Prisoners have to get money and buy stuff from the "commissary" (mostly vending machines type stuff) just to have the energy to go work out or lift weights.

"For profit" means they take their profits from our tax dollars to pay their CEO's, instead of working through the State / Federal government and working with career government professional employees.

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