The us prison systems are barbaric, for-profit businesses that rely on primarily POC and poverty-stricken individuals in general. Add into the mix mentally ill individuals and you’ve got a great pool of raw material for greed infected capitalists to make money from misery. This isn’t to say that really rotten human beings are also in the prison but rich white criminals don’t often end in the cesspool prisons. With all his appalling crimes trump will never see prison. It’s pointless to rant about it, the american people like horrible prisons because “bad people” suffer in them. We americans like bad people to suffer, they deserve it so it will never change. There’s far too much money to be made from human misery and money needs to be respected. If you really want to ruin your day dig into prison rape, teenage boys thrown in and laughed at by the guards. Young men are literally fucked to death in some of these places.
For several years I worked with men on supervised release, parole is the old term. Some of them would talk about what happened, they were still filled with rage and anger at almost everyone and everything but if they can be convinced to direct their anger they will likely survive. The quiet ones filled with shame at being used, they scare me for what they may do to themselves or perhaps others.
I doubt much valid research can be done online. Journals buried in the stacks of libraries are more likely to tell the real stories. A lot of the ugly truth never finds the surface, the stories of boys who didn’t live through their first week. Fortunately blood washes off money easily, hardly ever leaves a trace.
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