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Some ICE detainees unable to buy food after payment system goes down (www.independent.co.uk)

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ICE detainees rely on Access Corrections’ systems — which are experiencing outages — to get money for basic necessities while they’re imprisoned

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

Sue Access Corrections right out of business.

If Americans must live in a dystopian world where a financial private middleman company determines whether some people get to eat or not, then that company and its investors should be personally liable when an issue or mistake on their end causes undue harm.