In the United States (the prison capital of the world), prisons are nothing more than the spiritual successor to slavery in all but name. They are a racist institution in a country that was openly founded on colonialism and genocide.
"But whatabout the really bad™ people???"
See the post, and also CW: Reality. Donald The Fucking Nazi Rapist Trump is a free man, and he will always be a free man, and if he does see "prison," it will be all for show in some country club "prison," not with the rest of us normies. Joseph Biden has more blood on his hands than the worst serial killer in history, and he's the fucking president! And he's also got a protective circle of brainwashed individuals defending him!
You think really bad™ people go to prison? Only if they're also part of a marginalized group. The prison system was never intended to address actual injustice, unless that "injustice" is one of the things referenced in the post.
Rehabilitation or, in extreme cases, keep them out of society for safety reasons, but this whole punishment thing we do has objectively worse outcomes for prisoners and society. Although current outcomes are good for capitalists... 🤔
Police used to exist to catch slaves in this country. They still do, but they used to too. We're just told there are no slaves and everyone has freedom (for a skewed definition of freedom).
Yup, slavery is literally protected in our constitution. It's our constitutional right to enslave our prisoners.
Why would a prison have any incentive to rehabilitate their captive workforce?
You rehabilitate poor, desperate people by destroying their ability to get a job and have any kind of security, right?