Russia announces new plans to use forced prison labor, promises it "won't be a gulag"

[nosaj]

This has a nice table that lets you sort by incarceration rate per-100,000.

List of countries by incarceration rate

[Mindysan33]

@GulliverFoyle

it’s only really profitable for the prison-industrial complex. On taxpayers and GDP it’s a colossal drain, corporate welfare mixed with forced labor.

Right? It’s money moving from the public to the private sector, which is the goal of the GQP these days.