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Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? A Provocative New Theory.
Criminal justice reform is a contentious political issue, but there’s one point on which pretty much everyone agrees: America’s prison population is way too high. It’s possible that a decline has already begun, with the number of state and federal inmates dropping for three years straight starting in 2010, from an all-time high of 1.62 million in 2009 to about 1.57 million in 2012. But change has been slow...
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Prisons have become profit centers for our corporate overlords. The"justice" industry exists to create more laws, imprison more people, and seize more property to funnel into the pockets of the 1%. The poor continue to cost the corporations money if the are free, but once they can be imprisoned they become slave labor to destroy even MORE jobs outside of the prison system. If you protest this meat-grinder approach to society, they will track you and kill or imprison you.
Quite a slick system, actually. Round up the poor, make them slaves, destroy jobs, create more poor.... repeat for decades.
All things eventually come to an end. But its gonna be a violent end.