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sejje • yesterday at 9:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> If you think prisons should have profit motives where growth only comes from continually seeking punitive policies to imprison people

Prisons don't get to sentence people, courts do.


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culi • yesterday at 9:36 PM

Lol if only. CoreCivic once accidentally left their logo on a bill they wrote for a congressperson and the congressperson forgot to remove it when presenting it. Actually it's happened multiple times. Most "model bills" that are tough-on-crime are written by them.