Vast majority of those being held in Georgia's rural jails are there for nonviolent offenses

[mahatmakanejeeves]

A new study out this month that examines reveals that the vast majority of those being held are there for nonviolent offenses, such as driving infractions, drug possession or probation violations.

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Nonviolent offenses, probation violations leading jail admissions in rural Georgia jails, report...
A new study out this month that examines Georgia’s rural jails reveals that the vast majority of those being held are there for nonviolent offenses, such as driving infractions, drug possession or...

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Are they contracted private prisons?

The municipalities are under contract to keep them occupied with inventory.

[rainy]

2. I do not understand how we allow this! We have the worst leaders and judges in the world that allow

this type of injustices. It makes my heart hurt so much. The USA is a giant scam for the rich!

[CrispyQ]

5. Love of money is the root of all evil.

The "everything for profit" mindset is a scourge on our society.

Private corporations profit from locking up our fellow citizens.

Insurance companies profit by denying medical care to sick people.

Education institutions profit by loading unreasonable debt onto our young people just as they're starting their adult journey.

Good wages were replaced with easy credit & now everyone's in hock up to their eyeballs.

Nothing has value if it doesn't profit someone, preferably a corporation.

Disgusting & disgusted.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. It's a doomed situation.

It causes enough problems now, and likewise in the past, but profits mean nothing without actual products or services. And those products and services require raw materials and people.

And since we don't have infinite resources, economic growth (ever-increasing GDP) must come to an end eventually. Expecting growth every year is like expecting a whole number exponent to not approach infinity as the exponent increases. Economic growth will instead approach zero at some point, and then investing will be equivalent to gambling with dice.

Assuming that humanity even survives very long, of course. It wouldn't surprise me if the investor-class exploiters desired the death of most of humanity at some point, just to start over with their continued profit motives and control of the labor class.

A zero-growth situation is more feasible and stable in the long term, but investors demand a steady income for essentially doing nothing.

[CrispyQ]

7. Agree that it's not looking good for the human race.

I've asked a couple of times on DU, what does a non-consumerist, sustainable economic system look like? I never get an answer, but it seems to me it would start with reining in our numbers. The pessimist in me thinks we're too late, though. I think in the next 15-25 years, humanity's going to be shocked at the disruption & upheaval climate change will cause. There's going to be migration like we've never seen before. All over the world. Walls won't stop it.

[ret5hd]

8. It looks like pre-industrialization.

It looks like a hunter-gatherer society. It looks like the Inuits, Native Americans, etc from around the world.

No mining, no drilling. No plastic.

And a few billion fewer people.

[CrispyQ]

9. Then we're probably doomed.

I don't see us going back. We'd have to implement policies to discourage having children, encourage small lifestyle footprints, & push sustainability over growth. But thanks for your answer. Those cultures didn't even occur to me.

[GreenWave]

3. So Graham can get a downhome meal there?

[Midnight Writer]

4. I don't necessarily think of "driving infractions" as a non-violent offense.

If your driving record is so bad that you go to jail for it, then it may not be safe to let you be out and about.

To me, driving a car can be a dangerous endeavor that requires responsible operators. The life you put in danger with reckless, careless, or intoxicated driving may not be your own. Casualties from car wrecks rival those of gun violence, and have been increasing in the last few years.

Some bad drivers are incorrigible, repeat offenders that need to be held responsible.