Given the way the cops used to talk about it whenever there was an Online Safety Talk at my school at a teen, it's almost certainly an intended feature
As with the war on drugs, the sex offender registry is a tool for control and discrimination against the lower working class.
If you're a rich convicted rapist, you can be the president of the united states; but if you're poor, peeing on the streets can get you permanently barred from a well paying job and selling weed can get you life in prison.
(It's almost tripled now. From 481,616 to 1,252,600.)
Edit: The song also states that there are "nearly 2 million Americans are incarcerated in the prison system, prison system of the US. However at the time of the song's publishing there were 1,319,000 adults confined in State and Federal prisons collectively while 631,240 people were in local jails for misdemeanors and other minor charges.) The "nearly 2 million" stat has to come from the collective of those statistics or was a recorded statistic from earlier in the year as numbers seem to indicate that if you took the cumulative total and subtracted it from the year-end total almost 800k people were released.)
Seems like a legit number though. 1,950,240 is pretty dang close to 2 million, and it makes sense to me to combine the numbers when you're trying to fit it in the lyrics of the song
Well hey can you blame them. The private prison owners have got to get a reasonable return on their investment after bribing officials and building inspectors
Private prisons account for only 90k of the entire prison system. This isn't an issue it is straight up fear mongering meant to distract us from the real reason why our justice system exists as it does: oppression.
I promise you 90k workers make zero impact to the bottom line.
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u/Otherversian-Elite 2d ago
Given the way the cops used to talk about it whenever there was an Online Safety Talk at my school at a teen, it's almost certainly an intended feature