• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s pretty ironic that if the homeless vandalize anti-homeless architecture enough, the state will end up housing and feeding them in prison.

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      Let’s reframe that:

      It’s pretty horrific that the US prison industrial system benefits from imprisoned populations available to the used as slave labor enough that cities with higher homeless populations rather than doing literally anything to help choose to make things harder and more likely for a crime to occur such that homeless folks can be scooped up and dropped into the slave quarters prisons.

      Edit: spelling, my god this needs punctuation, use your imagination and add it yourself 👍

      • laserm@lemmy.world
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        26 days ago

        This is why I am against prison labor. While i don’t object to it as a reasonable punishment or even a method of rehabilitation, state shouldn’t be incentives to jail people. Similarly, often times immoral conduct of prosecutors (like lying to a grand jury) goes unpunished.

    • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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      1 month ago

      Sometimes it comes at a cost though. Remember the LA fires not that many months ago? They used a lot of inmates as cheap and expendable labor to fight the fires.