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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 03:58:07 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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   @rainynight65

   Huge role.

   In some states, private prisons have a "required occupancy quota." If the prison is below that occupancy, then the state has to pay the prison corporation a penalty per empty cot.😮

   And these corporations lobby against sentencing reform and decriminalization.

   https://eji.org/news/private-prison-quotas-drive-mass-incarceration/

   They lobby against it, in part because the most profitable prisoner, is not a career criminal. It's a hard working, honest, non-criminal Black person with a family that loves them.