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Louisiana has effectively fully privatized its public school system through the charter school model. Everything's been stripped down and sold off. As a result, parents and students are reduced to the status of at-will clients of a given campus and can be kicked out for any reason or no reason at all.
Add to that, the Louisiana system is also at the forefront of the School to Prison Pipeline, a bureaucratic model that seeks to segregate the population by class cohort and heavily criminalize the behavior of the lower income traunchs in order to maximize its prison population.
Louisiana also happens to have the second largest incarceration rate in the nation. Louisiana prisons also happen to have been heavily privatized, with many of the profits going directly into the pockets of the public leaders and their mega-donor allies.
Shithole country
Yeah but bbq is pretty good, so you win some you lose some
And at least in the case of Louisiana it really won't be an issue in about 100 years. It'll be gone
Best swamp critter rice filled intestines too. Haven't been to Nola since gluten diagnosis. I miss le monde :(
The average American prison hold 800-1200 people. The largest prison in America is Angola, LA, which holds over 8000.
Soon it won't be the biggest American prison, though. Trump is building a facility in Guantanamo Bay that will hold 30,000 prisoners. Clearly, he and Stephen Miller intend to lock up a lot of people, and NOBODY is talking about it.
PedoCons love to lock people up.
This made me look up Europe vs the US prisoners stats:
European population is 750,000,000.
US population is 350,000,000.
Europe has 500,000 prisoners.
US has 2,000,000 prisoners.
I knew it would be bad but that's fucking unbelievable... Half the population but 4x the amount of prisoners.
And just to be clear; this was from a couple of minutes of searching, I don't have time right now to delve deeper and really back up those numbers. If anyone has more knowledge and sources, please correct me.
‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities