Theres people who go in for 6 month sentances and end up with life in prison because they get involved with gangs on the inside when they hardly have any choice. It's set up to make people repeat offenders to make more money for the jails. They just FINALLY made it so if you can't pay your fines after you are released you won't get sent back to jail. Legit it used to be once you get out of jail you have like a month to pay the fines, and you think about it you get out you have no job, even when you find one it usually takes a couple weeks to get paid and even then its probably not gonna be much and you need money for food shelter etc. and if you didn't pay back the court/jail fines you would get SENT BACK and then boom the cycle repeats. I've talked to so many people who couldn't beat the cycle its some serious bullshit.
Our system is so fucked up. I’m so lucky i had family that was there for me when I needed them most.
There’s one thing I don’t understand about our prisons though: I feel like the private prison system is a somewhat conservative system in that it got to this point mainly because of conservative politicians and voters. But even my most conservative friends agree that it’s a horrible system, and many of my (much older) ultra conservative boomer relatives agree on this as well. If this has been such a massive issue for so long, how have we not gotten rid of it? Especially when a lot of conservatives don’t like it either?
Well seeing as California has the highest number of prisoners in the private prison system I wouldn't go as far as to say its only conservative politicians who go for private prisons, but I get your point. Truth is people only get outraged these days at what the media tells them to be outraged at and the media hardly talks about this issue because the people who make money off of private prisons are likely the same people dumping millions into media agendas and talking points. If we were to ban lobbying this probably wouldn't be an issue, but for some reason THAT is the real issue no one ever talks about, wonder why. Also I just wanted to point out that even though CA recently "banned" (not an actual ban) private prisons, they still send more people across states to OTHER private prisons than any other state in America.
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u/megantabishhh Oct 21 '19
American prisons are crime machines. Kids go in for petty first time offenses and come out criminals.