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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

For-profit prison inmates are more like slaves than customers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Excellent point, slave labour can be another revenue stream

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

How are they the product? Okay, apparently some american prisons make you pay for the privilege of being in a cage, but I believe that using 'forced labor' (euphemism for slavery) is their main source of $$$.