• Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Not to anywhere near the same degree. Also, just a few decades ago, you guys didn’t have them at all. The 1980s is where everything went bad for you guys.

    In the first Robocop film, there’s even a scene where the board members of the evil megacorporation OCP are discussing traditionally non-private sectors where they’re making inroads, and prisons are listed.

    The UK has a handful, and the contractor that runs them, G4S, is the name everyone instinctively listens out for in news reports about escaped prisoners, event security disasters and probes into site mismanagement.