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You have to realize that there are a lot of places where the local prison is the only industry they have left. Closing the prison means folks will be out of work.
And those out of work folks will have to commit crimes in order to survive, which will then allow the prison to reopen! It's a win!
If the prison is the only thing keeping the town alive then the town doesn't need to exist.
A community should never be beholden to a single employer, company towns taught us that lesson over 100 years ago. And especially not an employer that traffics in human suffering and misery.
GTFO with this "people need jerbs" bullshit.
I didn't say 'people need jobs' I said 'people will vote in their interests, even if those interests oppose yours.'
That's honestly horrifying
Welcome to the Rust Belt.
Reagan let the infrastructure go to hell because he didn't want to raise taxes. That meant that there was never going to be a return for those towns that used to make things like lightbulbs or ladders. Thanks President Reagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt
. From 1979 to 1982, known as the Volcker shock,[10][11] the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to raise the base interest rate in the United States to 19%. High-interest rates attracted wealthy foreign "hot money" into U.S. banks and caused the U.S. dollar to appreciate. This made U.S. products more expensive for foreigners to buy and also made imports much cheaper for Americans to purchase. The misaligned exchange rate was not rectified until 1986, by which time Japanese imports, in particular, had made rapid inroads into U.S. markets.[12]
So fucking what?
So, those people vote and are going to do what they can to keep the prison industry going.
Knowing is half the battle.
Fucking good