I lost sleep last night to #TheBezzle by npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33 (npub1hyk…3p33), a book about the ruination of prisons by private equity.
My brother went to jail in 2023. For dinner, two slices of bread, a slice of ham. My parents were paying $600/mo for video calls to his "free" tablet. I couldn't mail him a book, but had to have it sent by Amazon. Worse, the GED program was in practice non-existent.
I'm teary-eyed and grateful that Doctorow wrote a (great) story about the sleaze of these management companies.
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