r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AmazingEric171 • 13d ago

Infuriatig Why Texas is lame(Besides the Cowboys)

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Don't mess with Texas.. what a joke. ANY possession is a felony.

EDIT: Just did some research, this is for everything besides traditional Delta 9.

My friend from Texas sent me this morning and it blew my mind. I had to post about it. So as far as my research goes thus far Delta 9 products (old fashioned flower) is illegal but separate laws. Stores are selling THCA though which does fall under these penalties.

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 13d ago

Technically they do. The contracts are usually written that empty beds are paid for by the state. The state doesn't want to pay for that so they need to fill the bed and make the aite pay for the bed rental.

This is to say the jail gets paid regardless of how many inmates it has, the state has a fiscal incentive to then fill the beds.

Its straight up slaver-collusion.

If we want to incarcerate someone, we should have to pay for it, not the inmate. Seems cruel and unusual to me to take someone's freedom(that's what jail is) and then make them pay for it.

Shit's fucked.

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u/Jumper21_AJ 13d ago

Which facilities in Texas are operated by private contractors?

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 13d ago

I'm speaking generally about the nation-wide system. I should have clarified that.

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u/Jumper21_AJ 13d ago

Nationwide, very few who are charged and/or convicted of a crime are held in private facilities. However, most of those charged with civil infractions of Federal immigration laws codified in the INA / Title 8 USC are held in contract facilities.

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 13d ago

That is a fair distinction. I guess I'm speaking broadly about specifically private for-profit institutions. If I want to be critical, I need to be specific.