United States Prison Industry - Big Business Or New Form Of Slavery?

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United States Prison Industry - Big Business Or New Form Of Slavery?

CRIME GOES DOWN, JAIL POPULATION GOES UP

According to reports by human rights organizations, these are the factors that increase the profit potential for those who invest in the prison industry complex:

Jailing persons convicted of non-violent crimes, and long prison sentences for possession of microscopic quantities of illegal drugs. Federal law stipulates five years' imprisonment without possibility of parole for possession of 5 grams of crack or 3.5 ounces of heroin, and 10 years for possession of less than 2 ounces of rock-cocaine or crack. A sentence of 5 years for cocaine powder requires possession of 500 grams - 100 times more than the quantity of rock cocaine for the same sentence. Most of those who use cocaine powder are white, middle-class or rich people, while mostly Blacks and Latinos use rock cocaine. In Texas, a person may be sentenced for up to two years' imprisonment for possessing 4 ounces of marijuana. Here in New York, the 1973 Nelson Rockefeller anti-drug law provides for a mandatory prison sentence of 15 years to life for possession of 4 ounces of any illegal drug.

The passage in 13 states of the "three strikes" laws (life in prison after being convicted of three felonies), made it necessary to build 20 new federal prisons. One of the most disturbing cases resulting from this measure was that of a prisoner who for stealing a car and two bicycles received three 25-year sentences.

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[therealdavid762]

Thanks for sharing this informative video.

California is a big prison complex state, fueled by their draconian 3-strikes law. No wonder every California politician from ward captain to governor are beholden to the Law Enforcement and Prison Guard unions, and For-Profit Prison corporations. Public corruption is the California "pond" in which the cartels and Mafyia swim.

How about more freedom, not less?

Let's drain this "pond" and help restore California to its' once # 6 largest economy globally.

[BelligerentPolitics]

No problem at all. I just want people to start seeing how our so called Republic really is and just start to get people to wake up a little bit and think about things. It's so aggravating for me to see the general population unable to truly wake up see what is right in front of there eyes.

[Matthew Cunningham]

prison industry require prisoners to work or 23 hours a day in solitary cruel and unusual punishment