Clarence Thomas appears open to making drug addiction illegal

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Clarence Thomas appears open to making drug addiction illegal - Lemmy.World

“In an appropriate case, the Court should certainly correct this error,” Thomas wrote.

Thomas is making called shots now.

There’s 158 private prisons in the US. That’s roughly 2.5% of detention facilities in the US. People talk like the majority of prisons are privately owned but it’s actually quite rare.
The amount of privately owned facilities isn’t a good metric. The amount housed in private prisons is that being about 8% combine the two and it gets uncomfortable.
We’ve already had judges doing cash for prisoners, cash for kids, corruption. They don’t need all the budget to attract judges, a few prisons gets the job done.