gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · edit-26 months agoHundreds of counties around the USA have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profitswww.newyorker.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1338file-text
arrow-up1338external-linkHundreds of counties around the USA have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profitswww.newyorker.comgAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · edit-26 months agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240515104635/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/the-jails-that-forbid-children-from-visiting-their-parents
minus-squareMummifiedClient5000@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-26 months agoThe headline is not specific so I wonder which country this could be, that mistreats prisoners and also profits from it? Edit: The headline is more specific now.
minus-squareFiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoWell, since it says counties, you can deduce it down to the US.
minus-squareMummifiedClient5000@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoTrue, as long as you simply ignore all the other countries that are divided into counties.
minus-squareFiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoThe only other one is the UK.
minus-squareMummifiedClient5000@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoThere’s still time to look this up on Wikipedia, and edit your reply.
The headline is not specific so I wonder which country this could be, that mistreats prisoners and also profits from it?
Edit: The headline is more specific now.
Well, since it says counties, you can deduce it down to the US.
True, as long as you simply ignore all the other countries that are divided into counties.
We always do
The only other one is the UK.
There’s still time to look this up on Wikipedia, and edit your reply.
The list is long.