+ all misdemeanor marijuana convictions should be dismissed.

Anyone rich want to back a non-profit start up that can take over for these ghoulish companies (because let’s be honest the federal government has an iffy rights record on prisons too). I bet you could get some talented minds willing to look at the prison model and find ways to make it more humane and improve…

Immigrants in 1995: fine, we’ll tolerate them as long as they pick our crops

This is what every slave-barracks on every plantation was: For-profit prison.

I don’t understand why they’re legal, e.g., it’s a severe conflict of interest.

There are no words in the american lexicon that make me more sad and angry than “for-profit prison.”  Disgusting.