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From Reuters
$11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-ups
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Detained in a California lockup with hundreds of other immigrants seeking asylum, Duglas Cruz faced a choice.
He could content himself with a jailhouse diet that he said left him perpetually hungry. Or he could labor in the prison’s kitchen to earn money to buy extra food at the commissary.
Cruz went to work. But his $1-a-day salary at the privately run Adelanto Detention Facility did not stretch far.
A can of commissary tuna sold for $3.25. That is more than four times the price at a Target store near the small desert town of Adelanto, about two hours northeast of Los Angeles. Cruz stuck with ramen noodles at 58 cents a package, double the Target price. A miniature deodorant stick, at $3.35 and more than three days’ wages, was an impossible luxury, he said.
COMMENT:-
Well, who didn't expect that people who run prisons for profit would do whatever is necessary to make as big a profit as possible?
Besides, it was his own choice to take the job at the wages offered - he didn't have to - so he really can't complain.
Right?
He was given a free meal and clothes and everything else.
if he doesn't like it then he shouldn't have tried to come over here illegally.
breaking the law has consequences.
Man, that phrase is just a one-size-fit's-all justification. Covers everything from expensive toothpaste to kids dying.
From Reuters
$11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-ups
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Detained in a California lockup with hundreds of other immigrants seeking asylum, Duglas Cruz faced a choice.
He could content himself with a jailhouse diet that he said left him perpetually hungry. Or he could labor in the prison’s kitchen to earn money to buy extra food at the commissary.
Cruz went to work. But his $1-a-day salary at the privately run Adelanto Detention Facility did not stretch far.
A can of commissary tuna sold for $3.25. That is more than four times the price at a Target store near the small desert town of Adelanto, about two hours northeast of Los Angeles. Cruz stuck with ramen noodles at 58 cents a package, double the Target price. A miniature deodorant stick, at $3.35 and more than three days’ wages, was an impossible luxury, he said.
COMMENT:-
Well, who didn't expect that people who run prisons for profit would do whatever is necessary to make as big a profit as possible?
Besides, it was his own choice to take the job at the wages offered - he didn't have to - so he really can't complain.
Right?
shrug...
Life sucks and then you die.
It's all about choices.
Absolute decadence compared to prison life in Honduras where everything is commissary. You can pay 150 USD for a bedframe or sleep in the dirt. There’s no running water and if you want food then better catch and cook the rats.
US citizens who are in jail awaiting trial face the same kind of price gouging so its no specific to illegal aliens.
Best way to avoid having to pay the 10x markup would be obey the laws and stay out of jail
US citizens who are in jail awaiting trial face the same kind of price gouging so its no specific to illegal aliens.
Best way to avoid having to pay the 10x markup would be obey the laws and stay out of jail
What the **** are you talking about. I said no such thing.Oh yeah, I almost missed the first part where you had already declared persons awaiting trial as guilty, by simple virtue of them being charged with a crime and unable to make bail.
Nice!
What the **** are you talking about. I said no such thing.
US citizens who are in jail awaiting trial face the same kind of price gouging so its no specific to illegal aliens.
Best way to avoid having to pay the 10x markup would be obey the laws and stay out of jail
I agree 100% private prisons are a disgrace to pur justice system and should be done away with. However, the fact is they are part of our current system.
What do you see as the best way to avoid being gouged given the realities of our current system?
I'm pretty sure the prison isn't buying from their supplier at Target prices either..Kids weren't dying if they would have stayed home. They died because they were taken through inhospitable terrain in unsanitary conditions for miles and miles.
they picked up who knows what along the way. that would be on the parents or adults that were there. so now that your appeal to emotion is taken care of.
like everything else there are added costs in those supplies. they can't just be brought in. all supplies brought in have to be inspected and approved before distribution.
this inspection etc costs additional money.
again he is already provided 3 meals a day along with everything else for free.
no one says that he has to work and buy these expensive items. those are fully up to him.
From Reuters
$11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-ups
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Detained in a California lockup with hundreds of other immigrants seeking asylum, Duglas Cruz faced a choice.
He could content himself with a jailhouse diet that he said left him perpetually hungry. Or he could labor in the prison’s kitchen to earn money to buy extra food at the commissary.
Cruz went to work. But his $1-a-day salary at the privately run Adelanto Detention Facility did not stretch far.
A can of commissary tuna sold for $3.25. That is more than four times the price at a Target store near the small desert town of Adelanto, about two hours northeast of Los Angeles. Cruz stuck with ramen noodles at 58 cents a package, double the Target price. A miniature deodorant stick, at $3.35 and more than three days’ wages, was an impossible luxury, he said.
COMMENT:-
Well, who didn't expect that people who run prisons for profit would do whatever is necessary to make as big a profit as possible?
Besides, it was his own choice to take the job at the wages offered - he didn't have to - so he really can't complain.
Right?
He was given a free meal and clothes and everything else.
if he doesn't like it then he shouldn't have tried to come over here illegally.
breaking the law has consequences.
Absolute decadence compared to prison life in Honduras where everything is commissary. You can pay 150 USD for a bedframe or sleep in the dirt. There’s no running water and if you want food then better catch and cook the rats.
Sorry but I don't think I am willing to justify dropping the bar to normalize eleven dollar toothpaste because a corrupt backwater banana republic does even worse. Private prisons are what LEADS to this country turning INTO Honduras.
Corrections should never be privatized, for any reason...not even for illegals. Not because it is "immoral" but because the entire concept of private corrections is dangerous for both democracy itself and safety and security, what we're supposed to think of as "law and order".
Private sector profit motives destroy the "order" part and instead make law out of chaos.
Sorry but I don't think I am willing to justify dropping the bar to normalize eleven dollar toothpaste because a corrupt backwater banana republic does even worse. Private prisons are what LEADS to this country turning INTO Honduras.
Corrections should never be privatized, for any reason...not even for illegals. Not because it is "immoral" but because the entire concept of private corrections is dangerous for both democracy itself and safety and security, what we're supposed to think of as "law and order".
Private sector profit motives destroy the "order" part and instead make law out of chaos.
Where can you buy tuna for 80 cents a can?
They're getting the best healthcare in the world, for free.
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