Reminds me of the inmate in the Simon Reeve doc this week -- Archived Message
Posted by scrabb on October 16, 2019, 2:51 pm, in reply to "Commercial "health" care is a splendid earner"
-- who in answer to Simon's question about why US prisons hold a quarter of all those jailed on the planet, answered: "Money". The US "health" service and prison system are excellent money-makers, as Simon's doc made clear. Some of the details were shocking, even though we already know how harsh and unhuman their prisons are. One black woman told how she ended up in jail because one of her backlights wasn't working. It seems minor traffic violations for which poor black people are fined can escalate to them owing thousands and they wind up in prison because they can't pay. Welcome to the land of the free!
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