RE: Living in Fear
July 17, 2022 at 7:47 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2022 at 7:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Alot more than it currently does, I'd reckon. I'll use arizona as an example because I just posted about it claiming that it couldn't provide services absent prison labor. That's just the tip of the shitberg. They're also -already- having trouble providing those services with prison labor. They have the fifth highest incarceration rate in the country and they can't fill their for profit prisons (which they must, and to overpop....btw, due to contracts with the operators).
Not a whole lot of room for mercy or sympathy when your actual job in the courtroom is to source labor at ten cents an hour. Low level offenders get maximum sentences, upcharging is routine, early release is low, and recidivism is high. In arizona, "justice" is just the front office for a vast plantation, and the administrators of that plantation will say so publicly and without a hint of self awareness. They're not pulling the fire alarm for reform..they're wondering how to find more bodies. How to make more crimes. That's their only option, as they see it, or insist upon it.
Not a whole lot of room for mercy or sympathy when your actual job in the courtroom is to source labor at ten cents an hour. Low level offenders get maximum sentences, upcharging is routine, early release is low, and recidivism is high. In arizona, "justice" is just the front office for a vast plantation, and the administrators of that plantation will say so publicly and without a hint of self awareness. They're not pulling the fire alarm for reform..they're wondering how to find more bodies. How to make more crimes. That's their only option, as they see it, or insist upon it.
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