Just another reason to hate the US government

[KaneKungFu123]

Prison Industrial Complex

[savman]

this article is a joke.

[KaneKungFu123]

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i guess its settled then.

[savman]

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i guess its settled then.

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a few examples then:

"Poor people of color are being locked up in grossly disproportionate numbers, primarily for non violent crimes."

yea, and when I was arrested for DUI i was released without punishment b/c i was white. or maybe....i went to jail had to make bail and pay a lot of money in fines and make several court appearances. at any point had i refused to do so i would have joined the prison labor force.

"Prisons are not reducing crime"

based on what evidence? and how to you figure there will be an equal or lesser amount of crime if u allow people with a known propensity to engage in criminal activies to act freely?

"An American worker who once upon a time made $8/hour, loses his job when the company relocates to Thailand where workers are paid only $2/day. Unemployed, and alienated from a society indifferent to his needs, he becomes involved in the drug economy or some other outlawed means of survival. He is arrested, put in prison, and put to work. His new salary: 22 cents/hour."

this statement borders on comedy.

"Prisons are also a leading rural growth industry. With traditional agriculture being pushed aside by agribusiness, many rural American communities are facing hard times. Economically depressed areas are falling over each other to secure a prison facility of their own."

HAH!!!!!! i live in a rural American community whose economy is/was based on textiles. if anything we would fall all over ourselves to keep a prison away from here. this statement is indicative of the logic employed by the authors of this article.

i could go on for a long time, but i have more important things to focus on.

One of the reasons I left a job as a correctional officer. Just too many people being warehoused for nonviolent crimes, not being rehabilitated and basically just being used for cheap labor.

The other reason was being surrounded by concrete, bars and the scum of society for 40 hours a week seriously sucks.

[jaxmike]

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/25/cri....ap/index.html

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It seems the responders to this thread think this article is a joke. I haven't fully read the article, but the first thing my mouse directed to made me question the crediblity of this article.

"An American worker who once upon a time made $8/hour, loses his job when the company relocates to Thailand where workers are paid only $2/day. Unemployed, and alienated from a society indifferent to his needs, he becomes involved in the drug economy or some other outlawed means of survival. He is arrested, put in prison, and put to work. His new salary: 22 cents/hour."

I didn't think the radicalest of the radicals would ever make this argument. What a nutjob. I don't think I need to read much more of this. Does anyone seen anything good in this article?

[BirthdayBoy]

You do the crime, you do the time.

[warlockjd]

I'm pretty sure that's the logic.

[warlockjd]

It is amazing that no one on this board gives a rat's ass that we are filling our prisons with nonviolent otherwise law abiding drug offenders and that the United States, the richest country in the world, has the highest incarceration rate in all of world history!