Because it’s had such a deleterious effect on society in the past is all the reason in the world a Rethug needs to support this.
Besides, continuing to “boast” the largest prison population on the planet is the one instance where they can chant “We’re Number One” and it’s actually true.
I also fully expect lil’ Jeff to soon propose using prison (read: slave) labor to harvest the crops all of the migrants who’ve been scared away used to harvest. After all, Alabama has been particularly hard hit by a farm worker labor shortage.
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Guess this would be a good time to invest in companies that run private prisons
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Or for a real estate development company, to start building them.