• Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    But then they have to fill those prisons with more and more people. How can America just increase the crime rate on a whim?

    glances briefly to American history

    Oh right, shit.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      Slavery never ended in the US, it just got better PR.

      “Only prisoners can be sentenced to slave labor.”

      Makes a while bunch of stuff punishable by prison time and makes prison sentences longer.