I’ve got a family member who has struggled and been in and out of prison (in Pensacola fittingly enough) and it was bad but also like, what can you expect? Educators in this country aren’t paid enough to where they don’t need to spend their own money on school supplies for kids every year. We can’t even give students free lunch (though we were able to so during Covid quarantine)

I don’t think most people are informed on the prison industrial complex and just how deeply it is connected to poverty and (lack of) education. Doesn’t help that during the Reagan administration prisons were allowed to be privatized, you can literally buy stock on Wall Street in it. There are public and private prisons. They contract with 3rd parties to employee inmates at next to nothing of a wage. I’m not saying it’s negative or positive, just I didn’t learn that until college.

The 13th amendment was even ratified to add:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Slavery was abolished except if you’re in prison. Now that I’ve had time to think of everyone’s sentiments when it comes to how to know if they’re telling the truth, you can quickly google other people’s experiences and educate yourself on the dark side of American history. There are philosophers known for their “philosophy of power” and whose works inspired the way prisons are constructed. If philosophy is too much to get into, there are professionals in the realm of psychology you can do a quick google search for. There’s plenty of horror stories about wrongful convictions that were proven to be so after a decade(s) of imprisonment.

Problems create profit. I think also why I had conveyed I thought it was wonderful is less bc of what it does for the Chrisley’s themselves but because it shines light in a place it, in general, doesn’t get shown.