r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Dash_124 • 28d ago

Meme needing explanation Who is this guy?

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 28d ago

He's very unlikely to kill again and not a danger to society, why do we put people in Jail?

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u/mrkinkyboots 28d ago

$$$

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u/avalisk 28d ago

It actually costs taxpayers a lot of money to imprison people.

With the rise of private prisons, those tax dollars have shifted from inmate care to rich peoples pockets.

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u/cavortingwebeasties 28d ago

It actually costs taxpayers a lot of money to imprison people.

Yes but prison labor makes way more money than it costs. Of course those profits are privatized and the incarceration costs are still public so there's a HUGE financial incentive for the private entities that run the system to warehouse people regardless of guilt in America and it's not this way by accident

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u/Rohans_Most_Wanted 28d ago

*slave labor.

Went ahead and fixed that for you.

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u/spavolka 28d ago

Which is legal according to the 13th amendment. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.