A Boring Dystopia

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TIL you can pay $100 per night for Premium Jail with more comfortable conditions (www.latimes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Bacano@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 115 points 10 months ago (1 children)

we dont have a justice system. we have a revenge system. it all makes sense when you view it from its reality.

[–] Bacano@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well if we had reform oriented prisons we would run out of slave labor, duh. That's why it's in the constitution 🦅🦅

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In Australia we don't have the slave workhouses you have in the states, but our justice system is still focused on retribution rather than rehabilitation.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unsurprisingly, both countries started in part as British penal colonies for debtors and convicts.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Hurt people hurt people on a cultural scale

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

......stop being right!