For profit prison companies have a legal duty to make decisions that benefit their shareholders, ie. to make a profit by imprisoning more people and cutting costs of their imprisonment. 1/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/07/16/453309/solutions-fight-private-prisons-power-immigration-detention/ …
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They benefit from policies like the school-to-prison-pipeline, three strikes you’re out, and the current zero tolerance policies on immigration. They lobby politicians to support these policies. How to fix it? Follow the money. Abolish for-profit prisons. End/
7:21 AM - 12 Aug 2018
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