Ted, you make a crucial distinction that is often overlooked (or just unknown)
by many who are outraged by the relationship between the private sector and the
(white supremacist) carceral state. The vast majority (more than 90%) of all
people locked up in the US are in wholly state-managed
Perhaps the laws may benefit refurbishment or demolition labor, not to
mention logistics and decommissioning, etc.
There seem to be a few of these facilities to deal with:
https://concentrationcamps.us/
On 04/12/2019 19:26, tbyfield wrote:
> The good news: "States are passing laws abolishing
ing other than metered reading being a nearly
universal norm in some arbitrary near future — say, 10 or 20 years.
Ted
On 3 Dec 2019, at 17:49, nettime's avid reader wrote:
A Dystopian New Initiative Will Charge Inmates by the Minute to Read
e-Books
https://hyperallergic.com/530216/a-dysto
A Dystopian New Initiative Will Charge Inmates by the Minute to Read e-Books
https://hyperallergic.com/530216/a-dystopian-new-initiative-will-charge-inmates-by-the-minute-to-read-e-books/
If you’re not already on board with the ways in which for-profit prisons
are a moral and civic affront
