I think it's mostly the States where things are this dire.
A combination of harsh sentencing laws that give it a staggering incarceration rate, privatised services where they want more prisoners but want to spend as little as possible, and a general kind of punitive "fuck 'em" attitude in the culture, which keeps the cycle going. Not that it's a doddle in other countries
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 14 Nov 2022, 21:49,
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20% of the world's prison population is in the US
Or, put another way, nearly 1 out 100 Americans is in jail
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Varmint, Mon 14 Nov 2022, 22:22,
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They need the slave labour.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 15 Nov 2022, 15:53,
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Yes, apparently they do
Car licence plates are one of the things they make, presumably mail bags too.
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Varmint, Tue 15 Nov 2022, 19:04,
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I saw a thing recently, was it Channel 4 Dispatches? Not sure…
About guards in a Russian prison organising systematic and ritualistic rapes of inmates. They’d do it themselves or use broom handles. And they filmed it. It was fucking bleak.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 14 Nov 2022, 22:55,
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I saw that too
and often the guards force other inmates to rape each other.
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Varmint, Tue 15 Nov 2022, 9:34,
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it's so horrible it almost made me question my decision to wank to it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 15 Nov 2022, 10:55,
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