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Some ICE detainees unable to buy food after payment system goes down (www.independent.co.uk)

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ICE detainees rely on Access Corrections’ systems — which are experiencing outages — to get money for basic necessities while they’re imprisoned

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Buy? They're being detained, wtf?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

welcome to the american prison system

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The "for profit" American prison system! You may remember it by its original name "slavery"!

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

only reason we don't call it that is because we invented a new, worse, more horrifying version of slavery than anyone else had thought of, and now we call only that slavery. if something isn't identical to chattel slavery we won't realize it's slavery

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