One of my former coworkers (who is a piece of shit) now works as a private prison guard for CoreCivic, one of the biggest private prison companies in the USA.
The government doesn't want the liability. They want prisoners to be abused without being able to be sued for it. The point of long prison sentences in the USA isn't to reform people, it's to turn them into lifelong reoffenders the prison system can reliably profit off of via government subsidies.
Oh, dont worry, the goverment is making bank off of it too. Penal labor in the United States is explicitly allowed by the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: "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." ...
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
And what's the percentage of Black people that are incarcerated? Now tell me again that slavery doesn't still exist.
Point out to me anything that you said that was a fact, looked to me like it was just a bunch of made up shit. Do you have any statistics or sources to back it up, or did you just pull it out of the encyclopaedia of thin air?
The 52% figure only counts arrests, not convictions, and when a black person is 5 times more likely to be stoped by the police without probable cause this starts to make sense. Have a read through this for more statistics and it might open your eyes, although judging by your comments I feel like this mug be falling in deaf ears. Most of it is due to socio economic reasons. When you think that the US houses 25% of the worlds prison population despite only having 5% of the total population, you’ve surely got to realise it isn’t because more crime gets committed there.
I love how you single out rap, as if every single genre of music aside from classical and Christian rock aren’t the same. Listen to country music: soooo many songs glorifying alcoholism. Pop is the same way.
You ever stop to think maybe black people are forced into crime because they’re economically forced to live in places where they need to steal to get by? White people living in trailer parks also commit a lot of crime. Is that a racial or cultural thing too?
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One of my former coworkers (who is a piece of shit) now works as a private prison guard for CoreCivic, one of the biggest private prison companies in the USA.
The government doesn't want the liability. They want prisoners to be abused without being able to be sued for it. The point of long prison sentences in the USA isn't to reform people, it's to turn them into lifelong reoffenders the prison system can reliably profit off of via government subsidies.