Angela Davis discusses Prison Industrial Complex

The DA, the prison, counry jails, and the public defenders office are all in bed together. The number one objective is to send them to the hole!!!!!!

if blacks and mexicans learned to behave them selves there wouldnt be this problem

That is a racist comment barakHobama. It is people like you who reinforce the prison industrial complex. It is not about people behaving themselves it is about a governmental structure that will help some and not others. Most caucasians have access to many resources that are unavailable to many African Americans and Latino(a)s. You must be very ignorant to make a comment like that. This is the entire country's problem, not just one man's.

well i dont care its not my problem

Evita, why is it racist?

Because he said that "if the blacks and mexicans would behave themselves, we wouldn't have this problem." That is a racist comment.

Argentina decriminalised the use of drugs, so did Spain, and Holland, Portugal, Mexico,Canada, Britain, Belgium....Russia even.

C`mon Barak, get with the programme, tune in to the rest of the planet, and swim with the tide.

The good woman is right, the US penal system is a racially biased cash machine for a tiny minority of cold-hearted capitalists.

Good luck, and don`t give up!

I think I understand most of this--some is still confusing.
If it is cheaper to send someone to college or rehab---why does the gov send them to prison instead? I guess the gov profits from people being in prison, I just don't understand HOW. I mean, sure, the gov gets all that tax money to pay for the prisons---but they just spend it on the prisons, so how do they profit from that?
I wish more people could hear this woman speak.

Until we dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex racism, class divisions and harsh sentencing for non-violent crimes will rage on. It's pretty absurd to think about how many people are in prison in this country. I'll guess that if we discontinued the War on Drugs the prison population would decrease by 20%. That's just one series of crimes. Educate, Rehabilitate ... don't incarcerate for petty non-violent offenses. Stop racial and class discrimination!!!

1/3rd.. im sorry i don't believe that. Watch what black man think.. also.. maybe bruh's who've been to jail or prison.. but IN.. nah