Michigan Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say
Michigan Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say
Civil rights group sues two counties, says hundreds more have banned visits.
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That's some of the most corrupt and ugly shit I've ever heard.
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Welcome to the U.S. prison system.
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Won’t someone please think of the telecom executives?
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These aren't even telecoms, they're leaching middlemen taking advantage of a captive population overseen by corrupt bureaucrats.
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Did John Oliver have a story about this?
Or at least featured this exact thing in a story?
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He did. It was part of his prison labor segment.
In 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjqaNQ018zU
5 years later and it's even worse.
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I knew I remembered that yeah, thanks.
5 years later and it's even worse.
That applies to pretty much most of the subjects they he covered, unfortunately.
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There are way too many parts of this that just shouldn’t be legal. Everyone involved needs to spend time in their own jails.
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Throw em in Gen pop in the same prisons where this was implemented.
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These executives need to stop testing my dedication to being against the death penalty.