Prisoners: America's New Cheap Labor (ALEC Exposed)

ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is exploiting private prison labor for profit and lobbying for harsh crime and pro drug-war legislation to create more cheap workers for corporate America. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss.

Read more here: http://www.thenation.com/article/162478/hidden-history-alec-and-prison-labor

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[freestylmx311]

the young turks are full of shit, these remind me of glen beck....they feed of of alex jones and then spin off on what he uncovers and finds out.

this young turk show is for some reason jealous of Alex Jones.

Do your own work and quit trying to make someone look bad by making shit up, or really help and team up

[genungapearl]

I have to disagree with the turks here. I am against the privatization of prisons, and of course I want free Americans to have jobs, but the prisoners have to do something while they are in prison, and prison is not supposed to be a day spa. You cannot compare prisoners to slaves because the crime of an American slave was being born with a certain skin color. The crime of theses people is murder, rape, theft. I think it is a good thing if they are doing something good for the country.

[eethry]

there goes ALEC again.

[1776bricks]

You have to pay to live.

[MrTraffik07]

This is America?? The Occupy Movement is the best hope to putting an end to this financial tyranny.

[friendly78]

That's why u stay away from prison, if we had that here I don't think we would have high rate of criminality....

[acdc30450]

@drmgrl11 Well to be fair, you can't tear some one down for having a luxury, even if they are poor. But you can not shoot off your mouth about stuff you do not fully under stand like people who call the US a racist/fascist/puppy hating regime.

At the end of the day we can take comfort that the youtube community is full of whiny kids who want to play Che on the internet.

[drmgrl11]

prinsoners have always done manual work for the longest time, this is nothing new. if they do jobs like ..idk..paving streets or something that would usually be paid withthe government money from taxes, that's one thing., but if they are doing work for private businesses...eh. yeahnotso good

[drmgrl11]

@acdc30450 yeah true that, that's the thing no one realizes. I'm seeing minorities with cable tv and iphones these days, lol you know everyone just takes everything for granted. smh

[drmgrl11]

@acdc30450 okay, but that's not the point. The point is that people who aren't imprisoned need these jobs. But companies figure why give to regular people, why not give jobs to prisoners, we don't have to pay them a cent.