Our prison-industrial complex, which holds 2.3 million prisoners, or 25 percent of the worlds prison population, makes money by keeping prisons full. It demands bodies, regardless of color, gender or ethnicity. As the system drains the pool of black bodies, it has begun to incarcerate others. Women - the fastest-growing segment of the prison population - are swelling prisons, as are poor whites in general, Hispanics and immigrants. Prisons are no longer a black-white issue. Prisons are a grotesque manifestation of corporate capitalism. Slavery is legal in prisons under the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It reads: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States. ... And the massive U.S. prison industry functions like the forced labor camps that have existed in all totalitarian states. sott.net/article/290702-The-prison-state-of-America
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:26:51 +0000
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