• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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      6 个月前

      I called this months ago. I don’t know if it is deliberate planning, or just an inevitable progression once things get started, but “let’s kick out immigrants who are doing vital work” -> shortage of workers -> “let’s have prisoners do it” -> shortage of prisoners -> “let’s create more prisoners” seems absolutely inexorably predictable to me.

      • ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org
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        It is deliberate planning. There was an understanding of this and shift towards the perceived “expanding markets” you’ve described within the private prison industry. This was towards the middle/end of the Biden administration as they’d already capitalized on Trump term 1 policies that Biden left in place. I’m going to spare myself digging through the market journals right now but if you snoop around you can find it.