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Uh yeah so uh
That green leafy thing
If you inhale it
FIFTY FUCKING YEARS BUCKO
and other totally arbitrary justifications for putting a drastically skewed selection of your citizens into enforced labor
So the problem is that those people shouldn't be in prison, not that prisoners should be expected to pay a debt to society.
You misunderstand.
I'm pointing out how, when prisoners can be monetized, laws will be invented to maximize profit.
List of U.S. politicians and how much they are being paid by for-profit prisons