Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Sorry for repost, the tweet I was quoting was deleted. My thought is that the point of any business is to thrive. When filling prisons is turned into a business, it thrives. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 2, 2020 Hibernated

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“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” ― Nelson Mandela, "Long Walk to Freedom" (1994) — PolitiTweet.org

"Despite violent crime rates falling by 51% and property crime by 54% in the last 25 years, the prison population h… https://t.co/EB7D1d3ZD4

Posted July 2, 2020 Hibernated

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In the Stalinist days, Soviet secret police had arrest quotas and the prison labor camps had production quotas. Somehow, there were always enough lawbreakers to meet the quotas! But the free market can work, too, by creating perverse incentives to fill prisons. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 2, 2020 Hibernated