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  Fix the 13th amendment (end all slavery), and defund the runaway slave patrol.
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. >
  
  It always comes back to incentives. Stop paying for inmates the moment their sentence is up and they will be released posthaste. >
  
  They’ll let you overstay on imprisonment but in health care if you have a baby in the morning they’d like you out of the hospital by dinner time.
  Fucked up priorities if you’re a human.  Just right if you’re a gold brick. >
  
  Louisiana makes a shit ton of money farming out their prisoners to Private Industry for no wage/high profits. It's a huge profitable business for the state. >
  
  What's the worse thing you can do when people start to panic after being told about COVID? 
  March 26, 2020 ICE Detainees Were Pepper-Sprayed During a Briefing on Coronavirus Three incidents happened and they happened at GEO Group private prisons. Two of the incidents were in Pine Prairie, Louisiana and Jena, Louisiana. 
  (GEO Groups is huge. It has prisons in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, California, Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma, New Mexico... even overseas in South Wales, Australia, and South Africa.) 
  Louisiana got a fuckton of money for holding immigrant detainees in prisons. >
  
  
  Louisiana is remarkable for its use of the forced labor of incarcerated people. In Louisiana, mostly Black prisoners pick cotton, at gunpoint, on former slave plantations. They have cleaned up the 2010 BP oil spill, have staffed “prison rodeos,” where vulnerable inmates are charged by a bull for public entertainment, and have cleaned and cooked meals in the state Capitol.
  
  So it's literally just slavery. 
  Also, I feel like you could fill in the blank in "Louisiana's _____ is part of a deeply rooted pattern" with almost anything and it would still make sense.