On: How corporations buy and food made with prison labor

[rootusrootus]

> I can't understand how prisons can be private

Let's keep this in perspective. 8.1% of prisoners in the US are in private prisons. Maybe that number is too high, but clearly it isn't the primary driver in US justice policy.

[qmmmur → rootusrootus]

Don't look at the percentage. Look at the PROFIT.

[rootusrootus → qmmmur]

This entire conversation seems especially resistant to facts, due to their inconvenience. No matter, HN doesn't exist to solve the world's problems, only bitch about them.