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The Private Prisons Industry Is Changing What Constitutes “Food” (filtermag.org)

submitted 7 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/humanities@beehaw.org

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SCCF is one of four Tennessee prisons currently operated by for-profit contractor CoreCivic, the second-largest private prison operator in the country. For every person it incarcerates, the company makes around $90 per day.

Australia spends the equivalent of over $5 on food per prisoner per day. Canada spends over $6. In the US, especially in the South, many prisons spend under $2. And increasingly outsource operations to private contractors promising to find ways to keep us alive for less. CoreCivic did not respond to Filter‘s inquiry about nutrition standards or food expenditures.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I hate that we know how shitty both of our ruling parties are on this issue (among others) and we are powerless to stop it.