Why You Should Care about the Prisoner for Profit Slave Labor Criminal Justice System
The prison industry is big business. In fact, it is one of the few American industries thriving. Prisons are being privatized (corporatized) around the country and prisoners are being turned into slave labor.
…Finding reasons to put people in prisons has become big business in the US. Beginning in the 1980’s, prisons began privatizing for profit, making that profit off the forced labor of prisoners who saw not one dime in return for their labor. John Ashcroft helped along the prisoner-for-profit program by handing down mandated prison term guidelines. The so-called justice system dutifully complied with federal mandates as money, and lots of it, began to flow from the exaggerated prison sentences. Wall Street began selling bonds on the labor of prisoners and the number of prisoners to foreign countries; bonds that were based on the length of time they could be guaranteed that prisoners would be held.
Now that corporations with the help of the federal government had successfully converted prisoners into commodities to be traded globally, prisons saw an almost immediate end to actual punishment as prisoner labor was now sold to profit the corporation. Because the corporations owning and running prisons have only one duty, to make a profit, it is not uncommon for these prisons to be understaffed and for security to be less than desirable to keep costs down. Medical treatment is in short supply….(ppj gazette)
The corporate prison system is even paying off some crooked judges.
…In one of the most shocking cases of courtroom graft on record, two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.
“I’ve never encountered, and I don’t think that we will in our lifetimes, a case where literally thousands of kids’ lives were just tossed aside in order for a couple of judges to make some money,” said Marsha Levick, an attorney with the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, which is representing hundreds of youths sentenced in Wilkes-Barre.
Prosecutors say Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in lockups run by PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC. The judges were charged on Jan. 26 and removed from the bench by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shortly afterward….(msnbc/ap)
The judges have since pleaded guilty in this case.
Most Americans don’t seem to care about the prison slave labor system. After all, the people in prisons are criminals.
But should a person be made into a slave because he or she committed a crime?
Most of those behind bars are there for drug related offenses. Should they be enslaved for their addictions?
The US has the largest prison population of any country in the world.
…The total number of U.S. citizens accountable to the American correction system is the highest in the world. It even exceeds the combined Soviet Union and China prison population during the height of their .dominate Communist Regime. Are American citizens really that bad? (associated content)
Americans are not that bad. But we have a wicked system that is now seeking to lock up even children and teens for corporate slave labor.
Look for the trend to get worse.
You may not care now about the use of people as slaves for corporate and state profit. But in the future, you or a loved one may be wrongly accused or even labeled a ‘Homegrown Terrorist” and thrown into the corporate prison slave labor system.
When corporations are allowed profit off slave labor then you can bet that more and more people will be wrongly imprisoned to make more profit.
Watch out! You could be next.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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