c/videos · by Stern@lemmy.world · 1yNew York is Building a Skyscraper Jail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eut5Q5lUxic38 points · 11 comments · view on lemmy.world
11 Comments
very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 1y
When completed, the facility will be even taller than the Statue of Liberty... which definitely says something about the nation's priorities.
CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 1y
Dredd irl
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 1y
The first megablock, neat.
CentauriBeau@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Came here to say this, but you beat me to it.
bruhbeans@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 1y
It'll be the largest, not the first: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Correctional_Center,_Chicago
There's probably more.
atro_city@fedia.io · 14 pts · 1y
Instead of building house, build a jail.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 1y
Unironically, housing everyone is much cheaper than incarceration. But we don’t do the cheaper thing, we do the vindictive thing.
The cruelty is the point.
OwlPaste@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Isn't jail labour essentially slave labour?
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 1 pts · 1y
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y
That demo job looks like a shitshow. WAY too much dust
MoonMoon@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
You had "skyjail" or even "skykeep" but you chose "jailscraper"? Smh. Let our oppression at least sound cool.
breakingcups@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Can't wait for the breakout movie!
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 1y