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You realize that prison is interested in getting them back?

This is an industrial complex and they are the product.

There are exceptions of cause, see Norway.

Obviously the for-profit prisons would absolutely hate this kind of reform and will spend millions lobbying against it if it ever garnered serious consideration. All the more reason to push for it.

You think it is different in non for profit prisons? Wrong. And they are also making good money with it.

The question is, what is prison supposed to be? Punishment? Reintegration? Deterrence?

Prison is supposed to keep people who are harmful to society away from their victims. Anything else is secondary and should not impinge on prison's functionality of segregating convicts from society.

Not just for-profit prisons.

Correctional Officer unions are among the hardest lobbiers against ANY decriminalization of marijuana, or any general "reform" to our criminal statutes.

That blows my mind. "Keep more things illegal so we have a job".

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