That’s true, but unfortunately it won’t be solved, at least not in the US.

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I’m pretty sure you’re absolutely right. I just can’t say much about all this myself because I’m from Europe. Things are very different here: private prisons are unimaginable for very obvious reasons. Doesn’t mean that we don’t have similar problems (people trying to get rich on this) with public prisons, but at least all this is treated less as a business in Europe, which of course it should never be for very obvious reasons.

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In parts of the US. I hate living in a progressive state and getting lumped in with the backward ass parts of the country. This problem in particular differs across state lines. Unfortunately the best I can hope for now is for my state to be left alone.

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It is already solved in 24 US States. The federal government hasn’t done shit, so the States changed the laws themselves. Of course that doesn’t resolve issues like drug tests for federal jobs, or questionnaires for firearms purchases, but those are edge cases that don’t affect most people.

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Wasn’t there a candidate during the last election who wanted to legalise cannabis?

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Nah dude. Every prison is a profit center. California just voted to be a slave state to keep those profits rolling.

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I don’t know what you mean. I thought California was one of the states that banned private prisons, but I live on the other side of the country, in NJ, where we’ve also banned private prisons, and are trying to stop the feds from putting private immigration detention centers in too.

If you mean prisons in general, I think that’s a different discussion.

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All that means is the private company cannot own the actual prison. They can staff, supply, and build prisons; and use prison labor to make products.

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Alas the UK has begun outsourcing prisons to private companies like G4S to profit from.

We are ever the worst of Western Europe.

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Yes, unfortunately the UK has always been much more US-oriented than the rest of Europe, especially when it comes to neoliberal sham rationalization measures like this. I assume that the UK’s exit from the EU has reinforced this tendency once again.

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Biden? Yeah he said he would but he’s running out of time. OH you meant Kamala? Yeah she probably said it too, but of course she lost so there’s that, and it’s questionable if she’d actually have solved it or left it on the table so she could run on it again in 4y, and again in 8y when the next guy runs.

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Not solved until it’s federally legal, those “edge cases” effect a lot more people than you’d think, and add in the non-legal states who’re also affected. 24 isn’t even half.