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When you are running a prison with profits in mind, less staff and automating solitary confinement seems like a good solution.
Less staff means more solitary and more automated procedures. Means less care for inmates.
Personally I would pay more to rehab the inmates so they never have to return to those shit holes.
But for some non-magical reason these leaders are dumb assholes.
But for some non-magical reason these leaders are dumb assholes.
Lol, they aren't t dumb, they are psychopaths who don't care.
The article is paywalled. Why would the mayor oppose this? Costs?
My guesses are "tough on crime" and "cruelty is the point."
He's a former pig himself
ACAB
over concerns about staffing shortages and violence against jail workers. Mayor Eric Adams has argued since he took office two years ago that isolating detainees is an important tool to help protect jail workers and detainees.
The mayor and the union representing correction officers, which also fiercely opposes the bill, are expected to continue to lobby against the ban right up to the vote. But the bill’s sponsors and supporters say there are enough votes to pass the bill and to override Mr. Adams if he vetoes it.
I'm using Jerboa. Is there a paywall bypass extension for the built in browser? Or is there a better lemmy client I should be using? Android, fwiw.
Open it in your browser.