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▲ faitswulff 17 hours ago

Ah, but the number of people who are capable of this type of work who could be imprisoned is quite large!

▲_qua 17 hours ago | parent [-]

It's rather difficult to do enough bad things to get a lengthy prison sentence these days. Usually requires a violent offense in the context of significant priors.

If you're interested in doing hard federal time, I would suggest you consider interstate trafficking of distribution quantities of drugs.

▲johnnyanmac 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>It's rather difficult to do enough bad things to get a lengthy prison sentence these days

If you're white, maybe. There's still stories of some states having the book thrown at recreational drug usage.

▲_qua 5 hours ago | parent [-]

At the state level, by far the most common reason for long sentences are violent offenses. At the federal level it is more often trafficking at distribution scale.

There are always stories, but the majority are the above. If you have a state in mind we can look at the data together.

▲jMyles 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> It's rather difficult to do enough bad things to get a lengthy prison sentence these days.

...there are two million people in prison. Several million more in various stages of the carceral cycle who be be easily subbed in when more labor is required.

Slavery of this variety is alive and well.