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tessthismess t1_jeb8em7 wrote

dataisdepressing, but I do appreciate an information-dense infographic.

I'll always share this site. If you take the time to go through it all it's depressing but very informative.

For people interested in a long video. He doesn't get into the modern for-profit-prison system really BUT this does get into how long this has been going on. How, post-civil war, prisons were used to keep black people in shackles (based on charges like "not having a job") and it never really stopped.

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Valbertnie t1_jed3wr3 wrote

Which prisons are for profit? It would help give context as this data is for Federal Prisons, not state prisons. Is there a grid for the for profit prisons?

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