Dom exhales as if she's just been hit in the chest.
"Jesus, you're sharp," she says. Reminds her, in ways different to Peter,
of Minister Zhang. "Well, one thing I think is that—okay, you get a guy in
on some stupid petty theft or drug charge. He spends a year doing bullshit
work. Gets out, can't find a job because he's a felon. He's got a buddy
that can find him work knocking over a bodega. He does it, gets caught, and
boom, he's back, doing the bullshit work. You keep these guys beaten down,
never give them a real chance ... and there's your unofficial slave
labor force. And eventually he'll do something stupid and either get
murdered or kill someone and get executed, or he'll just overdose or have
an accident. And none of that works without the pain."
"Is it? It's all pretty grim, I don't deny it." She smiles wryly. "I wasn't
planning on starting off your education with a rundown on the prison
system. What else do you want to know?"
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"If the excuse is reparations, why call it punishment? Or do you have uses for pain that nobody admits?"
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Dom exhales as if she's just been hit in the chest.
"Jesus, you're sharp," she says. Reminds her, in ways different to Peter, of Minister Zhang. "Well, one thing I think is that—okay, you get a guy in on some stupid petty theft or drug charge. He spends a year doing bullshit work. Gets out, can't find a job because he's a felon. He's got a buddy that can find him work knocking over a bodega. He does it, gets caught, and boom, he's back, doing the bullshit work. You keep these guys beaten down, never give them a real chance ... and there's your unofficial slave labor force. And eventually he'll do something stupid and either get murdered or kill someone and get executed, or he'll just overdose or have an accident. And none of that works without the pain."
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"Thank you. That's very illuminating."
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"Is it? It's all pretty grim, I don't deny it." She smiles wryly. "I wasn't planning on starting off your education with a rundown on the prison system. What else do you want to know?"