This is about the prison-industrial complex, a boom industry in the United States. Mass incarceration and the criminalisation of the poor is the politicians' modern solution to the war on poverty. Prisoners provide free/cheap labour to be exploited. Prisons are not 'correctional' facilities in any sense of the word.
Read 'All Things Censored' by death-row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal for a perspective on the prison system that you'd never get in the mainstream, mass media.
This is about the prison-industrial complex, a boom industry in the United States. Mass incarceration and the criminalisation of the poor is the politicians' modern solution to the war on poverty. Prisoners provide free/cheap labour to be exploited. Prisons are not 'correctional' facilities in any sense of the word.
Read 'All Things Censored' by death-row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal for a perspective on the prison system that you'd never get in the mainstream, mass media.