Only for people that are black or poor.

True, however there are bs for-profit elements to even the non-for-profit prisons. Predatory costs to calling / commissary / etc. that still benefit companies when the US imprisons more people.

Even "not for profit" prisons are lining millionaires pockets with infrastructure and maintenance contracts.

And many states let private companies charge accused people up to $40 a day for the ankle bracelets.

Listen I live in the USA, but if thats your best pushback to all those facts - should tell you what a dire state we are in. And prisons that aren't for profit still send out prisoners to for-profit industries to work, so it's kind of a moot point.

And how many of these other prisons offer up their prisoners as extremely cheap labor to businesses that ARE for profit?

That's still about 96,344 people. Which is nearly double the total prison population of Spain.

The american continent is actually quite dangerous - if I remember right most of the top 10 dangerous cities are in south- or north america.

Also I once heard that the US is the country with the highest death rate which isn't in a (civil) war...

A lot of people try to get refugee status in the US, but the CBP puts them in open-air prisons in the desert. There are also are least 16 million undocumented immigrants living in the US. They don't all have to "sneak", they just overstay their visas.

The CBP was commissioned explicitly to enforce racial "hygiene" in the US. I don't understand how they weren't disbanded decades ago.

Listen, a lot of people don't understand the key to the living well in the United States. It's really very simple. Just be rich. You'll have the best life ever.

If you're too stupid to be rich (or you didn't inherit a billion dollars from your parents), blame some poor brown dude for "stealing" a shitty job that you didn't actually want anyways because it's worse and pays less than your shitty job. It won't make anything better at all but at least you'll feel like you understand why everything sucks (even though you actually don't) and you'll have the benefit of living in poverty AND feeling smugly superior to someone else who also lives in poverty for stupid (racist) reasons.

And if you think about it, that sense of superiority is nearly as good (it definitely isn't) as being rich.

Appropriate reaction. I never did the whole thing, because i'm not US and suddenly had enough.

well the prison can not pay you and then you dont have the money for soap or tampon and get sick and literally in some cases die

AMENDMENT XIII

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

If you're convicted in the US you become a slave in waiting. Ever wonder why reds Love superfluous policing of certain communities and broken window policing? Because it's a direct pipeline to private prisons profit from legal slaves.

Law enforcement decreased while abolishing. mandatory. minimum. sentences.

i watched that episode last night

It would be more accurate to say that people are people wherever you go.

And in how many of those is it legal for prison corporations to buy laws?

Oh! Many countries do it, so it's fine! Noted.

Would you be surprised to hear that some people are desperate and resort to gangs and theft because other opportunities have been closed off? How about that we have mass untreated mental illness and people resort to drugs to self medicate? How about that mental illness is still misunderstood even now, leaving people to commit "crimes" such as loitering and being threatening even though what they just need is healthcare? How about that the war on drugs is really what made our prison population sky rocket and the massive increase started in the 1980's? How about that mass incarceration does nothing to affect violent or property crime?

Tell me you've learned everything you know about the US from 13 year olds online without telling me you learned everything you know from 13 year olds online.

Is that in between trips to the gulag or starving or?

The US is one of the biggest colonial empires in history.

You wut mate?

Look up, hmmm what's a good one... Oh oh, Northern Marianas Islands. Go go go

Lmao what

Damn u onto something

Non free people with the best Free speach laws

Reddit moment

Ahh there it is

If you don't want to hear about America being bad, don't go to the same places as people who live in reality.

Hi. As a not American, I can say Americans get made fun of a lot by not Americans. We like to share these jokes with each other online, as not Americans also use the internet.

See most places are bad but America should be better. It presents itself as the better. It does not always live up to that better and so those people who want us to be better keep reminding us we have a lot of work to do. I can tell you personally how horrible America can be but I don't think you want to hear that from a Lakota.

I hate to break it to you but most of the fediverse skews even more left than Reddit did.

It will, because leftists love to cry and moan on the internet.

You didn't have to ask

I don't agree with this person, but I also feel like I'm missing something in particular if you're asking whether this person is stupid for having that take. Am I? Is there something about those county's prison systems that is important here?