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  It always comes back to incentives. Stop paying for inmates the moment their sentence is up and they will be released posthaste.
context: Louisiana’s prison system is slavery by another name. Plain and simple. It’s the modern face of the American institution of slavery. >
  
  This rodeo makes a shit ton of money now too. >
  
  The problem is due in part to antiquated time-computation processes (or an apparent lack of any such system) and an obsolete offender management database. The DOJ also pointed out that parish “jails have no financial incentive” to address the problem because" the Department of Corrections “pays the jail for each day of overdetention” — and doesn’t inquire much about their practices.