Gee prison population is increasing at an amazing rate

iceman_419

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Mon Apr-25-05 05:19 PM
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Gee prison population is increasing at an amazing rate

Who wants to bet that it's because we are still putting people in jail for petty crimes like drug posetion. Also I have issue with the fact that mentally retarded people are put in prison cells. THey need to be put in a mental home. TO bad the repugs cut all the funding for this and now we have a booming prison population, and prison's which look like they are from Thailand.

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havocmom

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Mon Apr-25-05 05:21 PM
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1. It's because prison labor is cheap

Wanna give your credit card # to make a reservation for flight or hotel? Might wanna make sure the call center is NOT behind bars first.

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thecai

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Mon Apr-25-05 05:28 PM
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2. Prisons Are Highly Profitable...

Edited on Mon Apr-25-05 05:29 PM by thecai

...slave-factories. What factories haven't been shipped overseas, now operate within the prisons.
Each state takes $23,000-$50,000 of our tax-dollars per inmate, per year, while inmates work full-time at slave-wages to pay rent, restitution, medical, dental, the gym, full-price commissary, tv's, radios, classes, hobbies, everything. "Tough on Crime" laws are not a deterrent, but they keep the prisons filled. Not many citizens complain about the high cost of wrongful convictions, many citizens are aware that "not guilty" verdicts are not profitable to the gvt.
click on any state, then click on "Prison Industries";
http://www.doc.wa.gov/general/links.htm

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Jacobin

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Mon Apr-25-05 05:29 PM
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3. exactly

For profit prisons make it certain to keep the prisons full. Means more money for corporations who own them

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AmandaRuth

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Mon Apr-25-05 05:48 PM
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4. I have been thinking about this for a couple of weeks now, and wanted to

start a separate thread on it, but I might as well as post it here. I am beginning to think the bankruptcy bill is the forerunner to debtors prisons, and since the the reThugs have privatized prisons, what better way to pay back their big donors than a huge new class of docile middle class non-violent inmates.

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satya

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Mon Apr-25-05 06:38 PM
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5. I've been thinking the same thing. And HR1528--mandatory sentences for

failing to narc on your kids or their friends, among many other things.

Utopia for cheap labor conservatives...

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