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For profit prisons have formed a powerul lobby

3 pointsby zabramowalmost 10 years ago

2 comments

kjs3almost 10 years ago
Next up, prison time for traffic tickets and littering. Got to maximize those profits, and parole is bad for shareholder value.
wahsdalmost 10 years ago
In a way, this is really not unlike slavery in its nature. It is the undue extraction and exploitation of wealth and money through abusive means. This time around it&#x27;s just that the source of that money and wealth is not human labor as in the industrial age, it&#x27;s tax money and debt that is piled on all of society as it is percolated to the top.<p>We need to pass some laws that make jailing corporate executives, bankers, lobbyists, and politicians highly profitable. There should be a kind of profit sharing, a civil forfeiture law, with prisons when moneys earned through and during illicit activities are confiscated from the top. I guarantee that there would either be a frenzy to go after white collar criminals, or the system would collapse because that&#x27;s all quite a bit too close for comfort for those involved.