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@emptywheel.bsky.social someone's getting paid to run those prisons, and some of that money is coming back to Republicans.
I know it's a one-way bridge, but some of you will see this.
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And no, #Trump|s #regime will #speedrun the #dedollarization of #WorldTrade in favour of the #Euro, because noone wants to deal with a regime that essentially devalued the #USD by 5,6% in the last 3 months, 2,4% in the last month alone compared to the #EUR!
It'll make the #USA more irrelevant and hopefully that'll be the end of it, with it ceasing to exist and it's remains being absorbed by #Mexico and #Canada along the former #SlaveryBelt!
- Let's hope that'll end as peacefully as it can be, but I'd rather expect #USpol to crack the whip harder, do #Slavery 2.0 with #ForProfitPrisons and introducing #Neofeudalism amidst their new #ConcentrationCamps!
Hopefully people will not require 8,5 years to grow a spine to get rid of #AgentKrasnov in time!
wow. What the fuck: [The Guardian]: I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it
Such bullshit. This is waste, fraud and abuse.
The Guardian · ‘I was a British tourist trying to leave the US. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre’
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She wraps it up with something I know many of us have been going on about for years, but I don't think most Americans have more than a vague awareness of, if at all. And I want to know which of our politicians have stock in these companies. This whole scheme should be against the law. It's a profit machine and grinds up humans in its gears, and the grinding is the point. And if you're an American taxpayer, your politicians have forced this moral injury onto your shoulders. They decided you're paying for this evil.
"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.
Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.
The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly. What I had experienced was finally starting to make sense.
This is not just my story. It is the story of thousands and thousands of people still trapped in a system that profits from their suffering."
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#Oligarchs love supporting each other. #forprofitprisons are run by oligarch wanna be's.
#Alabama profits off #prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for #parole
"No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — including the brutal #ConvictLeasing era that replaced #slavery — it has constructed a template for the #commercialization of #MassIncarceration."
By ROBIN MCDOWELL and MARGIE MASON
Updated 5:10 PM EST, December 20, 2024
DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot and Wayfair. It didn’t matter that Jake Jones once had escaped or that he had failed two drug and alcohol tests while in lockup — he was unsupervised and technically in charge.
By the time Jones was driving back to the work release center with six other incarcerated workers, it was pelting rain. Jones had a reputation for driving fast and some of his passengers said he was racing along the country road, jamming to music in his earbuds. Suddenly, the transport van hit a dip and swerved on the wet pavement, slamming into a tree."
AP News · Alabama has earned hundreds of millions of dollars from prison labor since 2000.
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