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I was thinking the other day about how jails are powerful in all the wrong ways. Inmates harm each other and their crimes are not always prosecuted. Guards beat someone to death and no charges are ever filed. Prisons have the power to hide crimes when convenient, but don't have the power to stop gang activity and drugs inside the prison. This is what corrupted power looks like. Police departments are often the same.
> Police departments are often the same. I don't know understand why some people online seem to so often want to steer discussions towards how the police are so awful.
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What’s wrong with working on a porn site? I’d feel better about working on a porn site than at least one of FAANGs.
Many people consider porn fundamentally immoral, not to mention most porn has connection to sex trafficking.
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What a ridiculous presumption. Is there anything resembling evidence that the current system of incarceration selects the "kinds of people" to whom you refer, rather than arbitrarily from the population, weighted by money and melanin?
Are you saying that no one in prison is there because they committed a crime? While I’d be certain that there are false positives, you seem to be asserting that the entire prison population is composed of false positives.
I'm sure reducing prisoner contact with loved ones will surely reduce crime! /s
That's a feature, isn't it? Must keep the revolving door spinning!
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> Police departments are often the same. I don't know understand why some people online seem to so often want to steer discussions towards how the police are so awful.
Corrections officers are sworn officers in many (all?) states. Typically under an elected sheriff at the county level.
Prisoners in the United States don't even have access to the internet, and now this for NYC? Really a disgrace.
Lets start with a dump of wikipedia on cheap $40 android phones with the radios disabled.
Plenty of prisoners would like to learn stuff given the opportunity. No reason not to let them, especially the ones who will be getting out of prison one day.
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Nothing really wrong with working on a porn site, but I might hesitate to bring it up with my family members.
"I'm a Software Developer at MindGeek, a prestigious global industry-leading information technology firm."
It's unreal how much money prisons make off of Prisoners' families. Selling items for 2-4x as much as retail, selling them items and not allowing them to give them away when they leave, making phone calls super expensive, etc. A large majority of this money comes from the Prisoner's family. And because they're prisoners most people will never really care until it happens to them. And this isn't really just a US thing…
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Hard disagree. If I were in prison, it would make a great difference to me to keep a drawing that my child sent me in my cell, vs. maybe being able to look at a bad scan of it. Plus, when would I actually get to see the scan?
Sure — but you’re not in prison. The kinds of people in there are probably receiving smuggled goods or other illicit materials, not pleasant drawings from kids.
In Georgia during a two year sting 46 people were convicted, all DOC employees, mostly Corrections Officers.
Taking away physical mail from people already deprived of their rights seems extreme, especially when the problem pretty clearly is COs who enable it.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/final-defendants-includin...
https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/court-overturns-guards...