The Prison Industrial complex is class warfare

[RGacky3]

With continual privatizing of prisons its becoming a for profit system.

It used to be a way just to keep poor people in line, but now they've made it a money making machine, and poor peopel are essencially being rounded up.

Not only that, but some states in the south have even started using inmates as slave labor in FOR PROFIT private industries.

Felons CANNOT vote, so you also take tons and tons of people outside the political system

Felons many times cannot get jobs, so you increase the pool of unemployed and thus it allows you to push down wages and increase your share of the desperate (cheap labor).

The US has the largest prison population in the world, the vast majority being the poor. Not only because there are more cops looking for people in poor neighborhoods and more police attention to poor people type crime, but also its much more likely for a poor person to commit crime for many many reasons (desperation, desire for easy money, lack of family life due to overworked parents, lack of access to education and so on), you you essencially have a situation that is class warfare against the poor, through locking them up.

[Os Cangaceiros]

It's been partially a "for profit" system for a long time, actually, it isn't just now becoming one.

[Prometeo liberado]

What I find interesting is that because these prisoners have to register their addresses to the prison, the census counts them as part of the local population. Local officials in the small towns where the prisons are always built have a disproportional amount of tax dollars at their disposal due to the large number of non-voting prisoner-citizens in their district.

[Anon4chan1235]

oh and there have been several juvenile detention centers that have been privatized and money is slipping from them to the judges to get harsher and harsher sentences for children for lesser and lesser crimes, to get the correctional facility more and more money.

[NewLeft]

oh and there have been several juvenile detention centers that have been privatized and money is slipping from them to the judges to get harsher and harsher sentences for children for lesser and lesser crimes, to get the correctional facility more and more money.

Yup, kids for cash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

[#FF0000]

Yup, kids for cash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

every time i'm reminded of this i am filled with the most ridiculous blind rage and i am a v. chill guy all of the time

[Tavarisch_Mike]

With continual privatizing of prisons its becoming a for profit system.

It used to be a way just to keep poor people in line, but now they've made it a money making machine, and poor peopel are essencially being rounded up.

Not only that, but some states in the south have even started using inmates as slave labor in FOR PROFIT private industries.

Felons CANNOT vote, so you also take tons and tons of people outside the political system

Felons many times cannot get jobs, so you increase the pool of unemployed and thus it allows you to push down wages and increase your share of the desperate (cheap labor).

The US has the largest prison population in the world, the vast majority being the poor. Not only because there are more cops looking for people in poor neighborhoods and more police attention to poor people type crime, but also its much more likely for a poor person to commit crime for many many reasons (desperation, desire for easy money, lack of family life due to overworked parents, lack of access to education and so on), you you essencially have a situation that is class warfare against the poor, through locking them up.


Yeah ive heard of this too. One just wonders where this will end :thumbdown:

On a reportage i found on onebigtorrent.org, they where saying that the level of assault among the inmates was up to 60% higher in the private prisons compared to the public. And that the assaults against guards where 40% higher.


The thing that the conivcts are used as cheap labour, has been going on in most prisons since there ever was one... i think. In the early 90's IKEA had some prisons as subcontractors.

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

Yeah and prison conditions are rather appalling. In a different light, it can be seen as the continuation of a for-profit justice system. At every level, someone is making money on you.

[o well this is ok I guess]

Using unpaid labour in a period of mass unemployment is a bad move.

[Yuppie Grinder]

The American prison system was born along with American industrialism. The same people who built the prisons built the factories, and those two sorts of buildings' designs have a lot in common. They shared ideas on how to run both, on how to concentrate power within each community as acutely as possible into their own hands.

"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half" - Jay Gould, US industrialist and financier (1836 - 1892)

[Yuppie Grinder]

Using unpaid labour in a period of mass unemployment is a bad move.
Would you please explain this? I thought the more intense the competition in the labor market, the lower the wages.

[Partizanac]

Yup, kids for cash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
Wow :crying: