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California nurses say an addiction recovery program managed by their licensing board has become a trap that drives them out of their careers and leaves them in debt.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Yes, but that was very explicitly the goal. After all, why help people if you can crush them instead?

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      2 days ago

      Gotta keep them in the back to jail pipeline so you can get that free prison labor. It’s funny seeing these institutions that were originally set up as a replacement to slavery suddenly start reaching into the former middle class. But in true American fashion nothing will be done until it starts affecting ppl personally