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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
The place I read that theory was a hardline feminist responding to the "men are more likely to end up in jail, and have longer sentences" - I'm not saying her position makes what she said any less tenable, but I just wondered where her motivation for saying it came from, if that makes sense  she wasn't saying "it's awful that prison exploit prisoners", she was saying "this is why men go in more often and for longer".
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Her reasoning is a little wonky to say the least, but the profits made by prisons off the backs of prisoners is the only way to explain the increase in prison populations, both here and across the pond.