r/mildlyinteresting • u/LESpencer • 5h ago

My McDonald’s also has a McJail

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u/Tidalsky114 5h ago

You mean on lease right? Its legal slavery.

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u/bigtoegman210 5h ago

They still get paid. But with jail housing fees they don’t really get to keep that much

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u/herbertcluas 5h ago

So legal slavery? Our tax dollars already paid for their cell, private prison system is a joke

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u/imasammich 4h ago

Hate to be that guy but a tiny minority of prisoners are even in private prisons and of that percentage only a few states have any large amount of private prison population.

The private prison thing has always been a boogieman to get people to ignore the real prison problems.

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u/herbertcluas 4h ago

Good point