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Chainfire

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1. Why can't we just bring back debtor's prisons? It would be a great boon to the private prison industry while giving

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Apr 24, 2024, 07:39 PM

Apr 2024

inmates a place to stay. When they earned enough from their prison wages, they could be released if they could prove that they could get a mortgage. See, it is simple...

Instead of trying to help the homeless they want to make criminals out of them. Such a damn shame.

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Why can't we just bring back debtor's prisons? It would be a great boon to the private prison industry while giving Chainfire Apr 2024 #1