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		Terr_ on Nov 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Not So Securus - Massive Hack of 70 Million Prison... > Coupled with a legal system that provides a steady inflow of new consumers. To be fair, the legal system also removes consumers from the pool, so it's not a matter of "newness" but just that the system maintains some basic population.

robzyb on Nov 13, 2015 [–]

I think that part of the problem is that the legal system is not just maintaining some basic population.

And even if it was maintaining some basic population, the incentives become misaligned when you start introducing a for-profit prison industry.

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