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MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

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MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
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Fuuuuuuuuuuck sake. How do you get to be this inhuman?

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/11/corecivic-private-prison-trump-immigrant-detention/

#USPolitics #Immigration #ICE

Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career”

CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger could barely contain his excitement about the Laken Riley Act and Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders.

^{Matt Sledge (The Intercept)}

A Flock of Beagles 2 Wochen her •

that's just how fucked prison is. burn them all down.

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 2 Wochen her •

True, but it's amplified exponentially when it becomes commodified. The prison industrial complex just got a whole new layer.

A Flock of Beagles 2 Wochen her •

state prisons aren't really different. remember who was pressed into fighting the California wildfires for inhumanly low wages.

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 2 Wochen her •

For sure. I was talking particularly within the scope of the article. For private prisons to be profitable, they need prisoners to put in them, right?

Not overnight, for sure. These same people and policies and profits have been growing for twenty years or more, under Republicans who don’t care and Democrats who look away.

“Do not care to know … what violence is done,
Nor ask what doubtful act allows
Our picnics in the sun”