by Charleston Voice staff, 3.25.12
For right now we'll set aside "involuntary servitude" of military service, and examine the states' prisons which will recognize the budgeting debt/spending quagmire solution by turning over their penitentiaries to the federal government which controls the printing press. As we've come to realize, the FedGov has already been given many of the constitutional law-making authorities to Washington, why not incarceration?
With Washington already now decreeing many 10th Amendment infringement laws, it's a natural for a heavily-lobbied "For Sale" congress to make more laws to feed the prison cartel.
Americans will be increasingly enslaved under "due process", but any savings will be but a blink as states increase spending along with the FedGov, and a bigger more predatory government. They've stolen the peoples' schools, why not grab the jails?
13th Amendment
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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By David Shapiro
Staff Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project
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The imprisonment of human beings at record levels is both a moral failure and an economic one — especially at a time when state governments confront enormous fiscal crises caused largely by bloated and unnecessary prison spending. But mass incarceration provides a gigantic windfall for one special interest group: the private prison industry. As current incarceration levels harm the nation as a whole, for-profit prisons obtain taxpayer dollars in ever greater amounts. Private prison executives, meanwhile, bring in multi-million dollar compensation packages.
Today, the United States incarcerates 2.3 million individuals — more people, both per capita and in absolute terms, than any other nation in the world including Russia, China and Iran. The current incarceration rate deprives record numbers of individuals of their liberty, disproportionately affects people of color and has at best a minimal effect on public safety. The crippling cost of imprisoning more and more Americans — non-violent offenders in the majority of cases — saddles governments with escalating debt.
This social ill — mass incarceration — is the private prison industry’s bread and butter. Private prison companies openly admit that their profits depend on locking up more people. For example, in a 2010 annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the largest private prison company stated: “The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by ... leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices ...”
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For right now we'll set aside "involuntary servitude" of military service, and examine the states' prisons which will recognize the budgeting debt/spending quagmire solution by turning over their penitentiaries to the federal government which controls the printing press. As we've come to realize, the FedGov has already been given many of the constitutional law-making authorities to Washington, why not incarceration?
With Washington already now decreeing many 10th Amendment infringement laws, it's a natural for a heavily-lobbied "For Sale" congress to make more laws to feed the prison cartel.
Americans will be increasingly enslaved under "due process", but any savings will be but a blink as states increase spending along with the FedGov, and a bigger more predatory government. They've stolen the peoples' schools, why not grab the jails?
13th Amendment
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
For-Profit Prisons: A Barrier to Serious Criminal Justice ReformBy David Shapiro
Staff Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project
CNBC
The imprisonment of human beings at record levels is both a moral failure and an economic one — especially at a time when state governments confront enormous fiscal crises caused largely by bloated and unnecessary prison spending. But mass incarceration provides a gigantic windfall for one special interest group: the private prison industry. As current incarceration levels harm the nation as a whole, for-profit prisons obtain taxpayer dollars in ever greater amounts. Private prison executives, meanwhile, bring in multi-million dollar compensation packages.
Today, the United States incarcerates 2.3 million individuals — more people, both per capita and in absolute terms, than any other nation in the world including Russia, China and Iran. The current incarceration rate deprives record numbers of individuals of their liberty, disproportionately affects people of color and has at best a minimal effect on public safety. The crippling cost of imprisoning more and more Americans — non-violent offenders in the majority of cases — saddles governments with escalating debt.
This social ill — mass incarceration — is the private prison industry’s bread and butter. Private prison companies openly admit that their profits depend on locking up more people. For example, in a 2010 annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the largest private prison company stated: “The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by ... leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices ...”
Read entire article here
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