When Capitalism Meets Prisons, People End Up Dying

When you make a prison private, the only incentive the new prison owner has is to make money. That’s kinda the whole goal behind capitalism. Instead of trying to make prisoners functioning members of society, private prisons benefit from cutting costs, tolerating and even promoting violence, and treating their prisoners like livestock. Watch this tape…

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