On private prisons

Hmm.

https://twitter.com/dissentingj/status/978575267286388738?s=19

«They are the SAME issue. That’s the point. People are treating profit as unique to private prisons, but this is untrue. And since they represent such a small percentage, this distorts general understanding of prisons.»

Another tweet by the same guy:

https://twitter.com/dissentingj/status/978652202167427072?s=19

«Unpaid (or grossly underpaid) coerced labor is a huge monetary incentive in GOVERNMENT-run prisons. People are dangerously reducing “prison industrial complex” to private prisons, which are just a tiny fraction of all prisons.»

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