Jailing men for profit: The rise of the prison industry. Incarceration rate tripled since 1980. For 10 years judges earned $2.6m+ in scam to send 5,000+ men to prison for petty crimes. “…a justice system based upon increasing the power and wealth of the corporate-state.”

Revoran · 2012-04-11T19:58:26+00:00

How it works:

Minorities sent to jail in greater numbers : Pretty blatant example of racism in the system.
Males send to jail in greater numbers : Men clearly commit a lot more crimes!

DevinV · 2012-04-11T19:50:12+00:00

I posted about this months ago which prompted an AVFM writer to make an article about it. But is this any surprise? America is a country built on slavery and exploitation and that, well, hasn't gone away. The new slave class has become the poor and "undesirable" men who are thrown into this system and used up for corporate interests so they can proudly state that they don't use foreign sweatshop labor like those other companies-- oh no my friend, this article you see here? Made in the USA! By imprisoned slaves, that is. This has been going on for quite some time.

ignatiusloyola · 2012-04-11T18:28:26+00:00

There are definitely some draw backs to using financial incentives to perform public services.

HowardB · 2012-04-12T01:57:42+00:00

consider the "kids for cash" scandal which rocked Luzerne County, Penn., in 2009. For ten years, the Mid Atlantic Youth Service Corporation, which specializes in private prisons for juvenile offenders, paid two judges to jail youths and send them to private prison facilities. The judges, who made over $2.6 million in the scam, had more than 5,000 kids come through their courtrooms and sent many of them to prison for petty crimes such as stealing DVDs from Wal-Mart and trespassing in vacant buildings. When the scheme finally came to light, one judge was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison and the other received 28 years, but not before thousands of young lives had been ruined.

sfudman · 2012-04-11T20:32:03+00:00

If only Rush Limbaugh would discuss this topic and call the victims "sluts". Then we might get some movement.

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