Across the United States, hundreds of jails have eliminated in-person family visits over the last decade. Why has this happened? The answer highlights a profound flaw in how decisions too often get made in our legal system: for-profit jail telecom companies realized that they could earn more profit from phone and video calls if jails eliminated free in-person visits for families. So the companies offered sheriffs and county jails across the country a deal: if you eliminate family visits, we’ll give you a cut of the increased profits from the larger number of calls. This led to a wave across the country, as local jails sought to supplement their budgets with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from some of the poorest families in our society.
We also charge people a ton of money to imprison them, intentionally keep prisoners in inhumane conditions, and imprison a larger portion of our population than any other medium or large country, and allow prisoners and defendants to be exploited for profit, and subject prisoners to literal slavery (as explicitly allowed by the 13th amendment).
So those other countries, their justice systems aren’t inherently corrupt?