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Key West Lou / Private Prisons
Key West Lou / Private Prisons
By Louis Petrone
Federal and state governments have and still
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Lou,
Thanks for this enlightening essay on the immoral, yet legal trend to commoditize human beings. The greed of these trolls knows no bounds.This country has five percent of the world’s population, but twenty-five percent of the world’s incarcerated are in US prisons! More than Russia and Red China combined! As municipalities are squeezed for dollars they are enticed by Corporate with the siren song of private prison for profit as the solution. (Remember, those same trolls created the squeeze by diverting money from those very government entities into their own private pockets) Brilliant.
Then there is the fact that lobbyists that work for the prison/industrial complex write draconian laws that allow easier arrests and longer mandatory sentences to maximize income from prisoners, the aforementioned commoditized human beings, who are forced to pay for their own incarceration. Prisoners must purchase food, clothes, bedding, toiletries and phone calls while earning a whopping twenty five cents an hour, while Corporate rakes in huge profits from contracting out their prison labor. The ultimate insult is when the prisoners are finally released they are in debt to the corporate prison system and set up for failure to, once again, become a police problem and/or a commodity in the prison-for-profit racket.
Disgusting.
The “prison industrial complex”, wait, it’s even worse… the “for-profit, corporate, prison industrial complex” is evil AND it’s systemic. This is federal. It won’t be changed by voting (all the [s]elected officials are Elite-aligned to their corporate masters and are duopoly puppets.) It won’t be changed by petitioning. It won’t be changed by protest.
Anything and everything that is evil/profit-motivated corporate-centric/illegal/treasonous done at the federal level (and also somewhat at the state level, depending on the state) will require some sort of citizen revolt and takeover, or it will just keep getting worse. For example, with an economic collapse will come exponentially expanded debtor’s prisons.
What will it take to change this?
…citizens in control of our own governance.
Currently, citizens have no representatives (the representatives all represent their corporate masters.) So, currently, there is no effective mechanism to change this. Like fracking and GMO labeling and military spending – it makes no difference that 80% of ordinary citizens are against the corporate privatized for-profit prison system.
What could possibly -quickly- transform our government into a true “government of the people”, in control of our own governance? What could possibly cause massive systemic change where the net result would be getting only ordinary citizens into all positions of governance, and blocking the Elite’s control. – which is what it WILL take to change this.