debbietoo
08-24-2016, 10:27 AM
I was searching for articles on prison privatization and found this article on Huffington Post. It not only outlines how the US became a nation of incarceration, but also details how it effects the economy, jobs, and how large corporations profit from prison labor.
Please take the time to read this article!
Thank goodness these private prisons are being shut down by democrats.
How Did We Become Incarceration Nation?
Our political and media elites should be ashamed of themselves. It’s taken nearly 20 years for them to realize that we are the largest police state in the world — that we have more prisoners than China or Russia both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the population.
This Rip Van Winkle awakening is now leading to handwringing calls for the release of minor “offenders” and rethinking the arrest of people for selling cigarettes on street corners or “driving while black.”
Incredibly, the head of the FBI frets (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/26/451992173/fbi-director-doubles-down-on-linking-scrutiny-of-police-with-rise-in-violent-cri)that a new crime wave may result from being too mindful about preventing overt, racist police brutality — the so-called Ferguson Effect. But of course, he has no explanation for how the “home of the free” became a gulag.
That explanation will be hard to come by until elites admit that they destroyed any and all efforts to create public jobs and expand social programs for those struggling to survive. They incarcerated the War on Poverty.
If we listen carefully to today’s crop of politicians, we will find precious few (Bernie) who have the nerve to call for the creation of public jobs to bring down the 50% unemployment rate for black youths. Instead, they still sing from the old conservative hymnal about how “stimulating” the private sector will provide good jobs for all.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/how-did-we-become-incarceration-nation_b_8452628.html?
Please take the time to read this article!
Thank goodness these private prisons are being shut down by democrats.
How Did We Become Incarceration Nation?
Our political and media elites should be ashamed of themselves. It’s taken nearly 20 years for them to realize that we are the largest police state in the world — that we have more prisoners than China or Russia both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the population.
This Rip Van Winkle awakening is now leading to handwringing calls for the release of minor “offenders” and rethinking the arrest of people for selling cigarettes on street corners or “driving while black.”
Incredibly, the head of the FBI frets (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/26/451992173/fbi-director-doubles-down-on-linking-scrutiny-of-police-with-rise-in-violent-cri)that a new crime wave may result from being too mindful about preventing overt, racist police brutality — the so-called Ferguson Effect. But of course, he has no explanation for how the “home of the free” became a gulag.
That explanation will be hard to come by until elites admit that they destroyed any and all efforts to create public jobs and expand social programs for those struggling to survive. They incarcerated the War on Poverty.
If we listen carefully to today’s crop of politicians, we will find precious few (Bernie) who have the nerve to call for the creation of public jobs to bring down the 50% unemployment rate for black youths. Instead, they still sing from the old conservative hymnal about how “stimulating” the private sector will provide good jobs for all.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/how-did-we-become-incarceration-nation_b_8452628.html?