Human lives are nothing but a form of currency to the oligarchs.
Don't worry, it's not a dictatorship. After all, every 4 years you get to choose between keeping this prison open and opening new ones.
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Economies of scale work for prisons as well.
In developing world: our prison is so full and most are just minor, non-violent crime, we should decriminalise those offence so prison can free up spaces and use those budget for infrastructure that need the money.
Merica:
This is what happen if you have for-profit, private prison.
Supply side economics at its most appalling.
This is absolutely disgusting. Does Keegan Stephan, who has two first names as a name, work for any papers?
You have to realize that there are a lot of places where the local prison is the only industry they have left. Closing the prison means folks will be out of work.
Fucking good
Then they should leave that city or figure out a way to work remote. Cities rise and fade with opportunity. You can't force there to be opportunity where there is none.
People might have forgotten, but it wasnt unheard of to move to neighboring towns for, wait for it, better opportunities. Not even that far away in some cases.
Closing prisons is always a good thing if its due to lack of prisoners. That trumps any need for steady wages for a group of people near the prison.
Edit: Stringere also made a good point about company towns in another comment.
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