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[–] 58 points 1 week ago* (11 children)

Payment was to CoreCivic per this article. Seems to dovetail with overzealous militias like ICE.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    As the article points out, CoreCivic is making money because of the regime’s anti-immigrant policies and they donated $500,000 to Trump.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    They also paid exactly $420 million more. These guys can't help memeing, even when they are grifting.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It's like the worst parts of 4-Chan from 2010 are now running the government.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    How the fuck does a prison have a revenue of over 2 billion dollars. Holy shit America.

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    Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 28, 1983, by Thomas W. Beasley, Robert Crants and T. Don Hutto.[18] Beasley served as the chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party; Crants was the chief financial officer of a real estate company in Nashville; Hutto was the president-elect of the American Correctional Association, and according to a 2018 Time investigation, ran a Manhattan-sized Tennessee cotton plantation where Black convicts picked cotton for no pay.

    Oh right, how could I forget.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    and according to a 2018 Time investigation, ran a Manhattan-sized Tennessee cotton plantation where Black convicts picked cotton for no pay.

    fuckin....what?!?!

    please tell me that was closed down in the 60s and 2018 was just when the article ran?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago*

    Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. There, mostly black convicts were forced to pick cotton from dawn to dusk for no pay. It was 1967 and the Beatles’ “All you need is love” was a hit, but the men in the fields sang songs with lyrics like “Old Master don’t you whip me, I’ll give you half a dollar.” Hutto’s family lived on the plantation and even had a “house boy,” an unpaid convict who served them.

    That whole article is worth a read.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250628151843/https://time.com/5405158/the-true-history-of-americas-private-prison-industry/

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