Diesel therapy is slang for prison transportation in the United States in which prisoners are shackled and then transported for days or weeks; the term refers to the diesel fuel used in prisoner transport vehicles.[1]
It has been alleged that some inmates are deliberately sent to incorrect destinations as an exercise of diesel therapy.[2]Voluntary surrender at the prison where the inmate will serve his time is recommended as a way of avoiding diesel therapy.[3]
Diesel therapy is sometimes used on disruptive inmates, including gang members.[4]
It’s pretty incredible how third world are penal system is.
We incarcerate so many people in the United States that the incarcerated is basically a country in and of itself.
More importantly it’s just big business. Got to pay to make phone calls got to pay to send emails got to pay for food through the commissary. (Btw you pay per minute when making a call and per letter typed when making an email)
Someone is profiting off of it for sure.
Couple that with the fact that we emphasize punishment over everything else…
Prison should be a place for people that cannot function in society not necessarily for punishment. punishment for most crimes that people are in prison for can be handled outside of prison systems.