Even state run prisons have many privately run for-profit elements, and contribute to the push for more and more prisoners.
More kids in prisons!
Keep that school to prison pipeline flowing and feed the prison industrial complex.
Facing youth prison crisis, Texas lawmakers opt to build new facilities and funnel more kids to adult system
For more than a decade, Texas has been trying to slim down its youth prison system, which has been plagued by years of abuse scandals. This Legislature is reversing that course.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/02/texas-youth-prison-crisis/
@AllisonBetus Testify. They’re an abomination.