• vane@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I just read what you linked. $450 million annually for 5000 people. Isn’t that 90 000 per person per year ?

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      10 hours ago

      Australia spends $4m per year, per person to lock refugees up in Nauru, and $3.5m per person, per year on Christmas island

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      15 hours ago

      Yeah incarceration is big business and we lose tons and tons of tax money just keeping people alive in buildings against their will. Thats sorta the point I bet, that aside it looks so much like a commercial chicken coop.