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They don’t understand that not only tax payer funds go to these systems but the systems turn around and create victims of those in their care.

Paying to stay in jail should be done on an availability of funds, like bonds are (mostly), else it costs the tax payers. The shell companies that operate these prisons shouldn’t be allowed to charge inmates per diems if they are receiving tax payers dollars for them.

People think it’s all murders and rapists when that’s only 5% of the population at most. Most are in there for petty crime, drug charges, 3 strike rules, administrative chains, or mental health issues.

Yet for 27¢/day, will pick cotton for a local textile.





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