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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