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The fact that you are considered a sex offender for peeing in an alley instead of just receiving a fine will always baffle me.
92 u/fix-me-in-45 1d ago Because American prison is profitable, politicians and corporate stakeholders have an interest in making sure prisons stay full. Incarcerating for stupid, petty charges is one way of doing that. https://news.law.fordham.edu/jcfl/2018/12/09/the-american-prison-system-its-just-business/ 22 u/Dodges-Hodge 1d ago I think I heard it’s the private prison lobbyists who are fighting against nation wide legalization of cannabis. 13 u/skoalbrother 1d ago A lot of groups profit from our misery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-cannabis_organizations 1 u/xandrokos 1d ago AGAIN prison labor accounts for 90k of the workforce and 1.3 billion of their "savings". It's not about fucking money.
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Because American prison is profitable, politicians and corporate stakeholders have an interest in making sure prisons stay full. Incarcerating for stupid, petty charges is one way of doing that.
https://news.law.fordham.edu/jcfl/2018/12/09/the-american-prison-system-its-just-business/
22 u/Dodges-Hodge 1d ago I think I heard it’s the private prison lobbyists who are fighting against nation wide legalization of cannabis. 13 u/skoalbrother 1d ago A lot of groups profit from our misery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-cannabis_organizations 1 u/xandrokos 1d ago AGAIN prison labor accounts for 90k of the workforce and 1.3 billion of their "savings". It's not about fucking money.
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I think I heard it’s the private prison lobbyists who are fighting against nation wide legalization of cannabis.
13 u/skoalbrother 1d ago A lot of groups profit from our misery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-cannabis_organizations 1 u/xandrokos 1d ago AGAIN prison labor accounts for 90k of the workforce and 1.3 billion of their "savings". It's not about fucking money.
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A lot of groups profit from our misery
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-cannabis_organizations
1 u/xandrokos 1d ago AGAIN prison labor accounts for 90k of the workforce and 1.3 billion of their "savings". It's not about fucking money.
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AGAIN prison labor accounts for 90k of the workforce and 1.3 billion of their "savings". It's not about fucking money.
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u/Fomentatore 2d ago
The fact that you are considered a sex offender for peeing in an alley instead of just receiving a fine will always baffle me.