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Politically appropriate ways to solve poverty:
Prison solves so many problems from a political POV. Work no one wants to do? Incentivize prison labor with commuting sentences. Reagan closed all the mental health facilites instead of making them work for the patients? Detain the mentally unwell during an episode and tell them to stop resisting while you beat them, then charge them with resisting arrest. A close friend of mine is a CO and man the shit I hear straight from his mouth. Fun fact if you know a CO well you will learn things about your state or county that don't make it to the media. Easiest example I can give is when they rotate high value inmates so they tell you something like "hey we got one of the dudes whose connected to chappo xfered to us for a stay"
I've seen it from the inside myself. Truth doesn't matter when nobody can see it. Those of us who have seen it just keep our heads down because nobody will help and we're afraid.
I believe you.
It's tough to fault you for that. I've heard how so little that happens there gets reported, I've heard about COs group together to throw someone under the bus to hide their actions, or more often inaction. Part of the reason I get along with the CO I mentioned is because he tends to always find himself in some kind of weird opposition to those bad kinds of COs who try to make problems for him just for doing his job as it should be done, as in by the book. I genuinely don't know where to start when it comes to some of the problems I hear about.
Honestly, by the book is still some awful shit. And yeah, cops will absolutely abuse the genetic fallacy.