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RE: Slavery exists, is endorsed, is legal, inside the U.S. - Con-Sourcing is alive and growing...
Privatized AND Subsidized.... also government gave exclusivity deals with the prisons... which is how monopolies and corruption happen.
Many governments mandate that a large portion of their goods must be purchased from the prison industry.
I dont quite understand. What goods do you mean? And who is mandated to purchase them?
Ah... the Chinese model! I also heard that in many metropolitan areas the cops get kickbacks to help keep the prisons full!
I wouldn't be surprised. Judges too.
There was a juvenile judge in Pennsylvania that got busted for it. He was handing out huge sentences for ridiculous crimes like shoplifting or curfew violations, playing hookey and stuff like that... turns out he was getting kickbacks from for-profit juvenile facilities.
Cronycapitalism! Reminds me of the book written by Max Barry in 2003 titled Jennifer Government
https://maxbarry.com/jennifergovernment/