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   Low Quality Facts (lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 07:37:49 JST Low Quality Facts

   We made a comic about fun facts.

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 09:13:53 JST Nicole Parsons

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     The USA is one of the few countries that makes mass incarceration into a voter suppression scheme & a profit centre for GOP megadonors.

     Felony disenfranchisement:

     https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/voting-rights-restoration/disenfranchisement-laws

     https://www.sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/voting-rights-in-the-era-of-mass-incarceration-a-primer/

     https://www.vera.org/news/how-mass-incarceration-shapes-our-elections

     https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-voter-suppression/

     Donor maintenence & public corruption:
     https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2025/01/21/bureau-of-prisons-director-colette-peters-out-on-trumps-first-day/

     https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-reverses-biden-order-eliminated-doj-contracts-private-prisons

     https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-on-private-prisons

     https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/22/trump-private-prisons-executive-order

     https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/private-prison-behemoth-is-first-corporation-to-max-out-to-trump/

     https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/the-other-big-election-winners-private-prisons/

     https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/corecivic-geo-group-stocks-rise-as-trump-revokes-biden-orders/ar-AA1xAOLN

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 09:19:52 JST Nicole Parsons

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     The USA, along with China & Russia, use the prison system for slave labor.

     https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/

     https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-injuries-deaths-takeaways-445053c55ad0f50fdc38234842600023

     https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-11/us-prison-labor-powers-billions-in-corporate-government-revenue

     https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/they-slave-us-prison-workers-on-life-behind-bars.html

     https://www.walkfree.org/news/2024/november-5-vote-could-mark-a-turning-point-in-ending-forced-labour-in-us-prisons/

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

     https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers

     Especially in hazardous jobs...
     https://theweek.com/politics/prop-6-inmate-firefighters-prison-labor

     The USA wants its own gulag system for dissidents. It fits with GOP policies of immiseration.
     https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/immiseration

     https://www.academia.edu/11511951/Immiseration_and_the_Economics_of_Prison_Planet