corporations find their dream worker under massive for profit prison system

rickyb

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capitalism and prisons dont mix....well if you consider the climate crisis and the 6th mass extinction is underway, capitalism and anything dont mix. capitalism and freedom dont mix either, because the majority of the world population arent free.

but anyways...capitalism and prisons definitely dont mix. it is a new kind of slavery in america.
 

oldngray

nowhere special

capitalism and prisons dont mix....well if you consider the climate crisis and the 6th mass extinction is underway, capitalism and anything dont mix. capitalism and freedom dont mix either, because the majority of the world population arent free.

but anyways...capitalism and prisons definitely dont mix. it is a new kind of slavery in america.

Capitalists should just do away with prisons and execute all criminals then? Sounds like what a few other very non capitalist countries do.
 

rickyb

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Capitalists should just do away with prisons and execute all criminals then? Sounds like what a few other very non capitalist countries do.
speaking of capitalists executing people, tell me how many other developed capitalist countries have the death penalty? LOL

capitalism turns human beings into disposable commodities, so what you said is not far from the truth.
 

oldngray

nowhere special
speaking of capitalists executing people, tell me how many other developed capitalist countries have the death penalty? LOL

capitalism turns human beings into disposable commodities, so what you said is not far from the truth.

You can't have it both ways. You keep changing your argument after you get shot down.
 

rickyb

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is this real? yes it is



Keiser Report ‏@KeiserReport 9m9 minutes ago


$CXW down 52%!!! On news that Dept of Justice will no longer use private prisons.

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DriveInDriveOut

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http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/inmates-made-thousands-of-unsafe-helmets-for-u-s-troop-1785524137
Inmates Made Thousands Of Unsafe Helmets For U.S. Troops

FPI had also worked as a subcontractor for Ohio-based company ArmorSource, which was one of four companies contracted to manufacture Advanced Combat Helmets, or ACHs. The two companies made 126,052 helmets from 2006 to 2009, for which ArmorSource made a total of $30,336,461.04.

The investigations found that both FPI’s LMCH helmets and the ACH helmets it produced for ArmorSource were riddled with manufacturing defects.
These helmets are a big deal for soldiers’ safety, and the DOJ report makes that abundantly clear. It says says the defects found in the investigation could “likely cause serious injury or death to the wearer,” due in part to reduced ballistic and impact protection.

In the end, about 150,000 helmets were recalled (126,052 ACH and 23,000 LMCH). The ACH recall alone, according to the investigation, cost the government over $19 million, so add the LMCH recall and this was clearly a major cash drain.
 

rickyb

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The wreckage left behind by deindustrialization created a dilemma for the corporate state. The vast pools of “surplus” or “redundant” labor in our former manufacturing centers meant the old forms of social control had disappeared. The corporate state needed harsher mechanisms to subjugate a population it condemned as human refuse. Those on probation and parole or in jails or prisons grew from 780,000 in 1965 to 7 million in 2010. The kinds of federal crimes punishable by death leaped from one in 1974 to 66 in 1994, thanks to the Clinton administration. The lengths of prison sentences tripled and quadrupled. Laws were passed to turn inner-city communities into miniature police states. This had nothing to do with crime.
 

rickyb

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“We have to shut down the prisons,” Council, known as Kinetik, one of the founders of the Free Alabama Movement, told me by phone from the Holman Correctional Facility in Escambia County, Ala. He has been in prison 21 years, serving a sentence of life without parole. “We will not work for free anymore. All the work in prisons, from cleaning to cutting grass to working in the kitchen, is done by inmate labor. [Almost no prisoner] in Alabama is paid. Without us the prisons, which are slave empires, cannot function. Prisons, at the same time, charge us a variety of fees, such as for our identification cards or wrist bracelets, and [impose] numerous fines, especially for possession of contraband. They charge us high phone and commissary prices. Prisons each year are taking larger and larger sums of money from the inmates and their families. The state gets from us millions of dollars in free labor and then imposes fees and fines. You have brothers that work in kitchens 12 to 15 hours a day and have done this for years and have never been paid.”

Prisoners are the ideal workers in corporate America. They earn from 8 cents to about 44 cents an hour. In some states, such as Alabama, they earn nothing. They receive no Social Security, pensions or other benefits. They do not get paid overtime. They are prohibited from organizing or carrying out strikes. They always show up on time. They are not paid for sick days or granted vacations. They cannot complain about poor working conditions or safety hazards. If they protest their meager wages or working conditions they instantly lose their jobs and are placed in isolation cells. They live in an environment where they daily face the possibility of torture, beatings, prolonged isolation, sensory deprivation, racial profiling, rancid food, inadequate medical care, little or no heating and ventilation, and rape.

In short, they are slaves."

Items once provided to prisoners, such as shoes, extra blankets and toilet paper, now often must be bought from the prison commissary, run by corporations such as Keefe Supply Co. These commissaries are, in effect, company stores where prices are exorbitant and the buyers are hostage. Companies such as GTL force prisoners to pay phone rates five or six times higher than those on the outside. JPay, a money transfer service for prisoners, imposes fees as high as 25 percent. The incarcerated are increasingly being charged for electricity and room and board. This bleeds the prisoners and their families of the little income they possess. Those who run out of money are forced to take out prison loans to buy medications, cover legal and medical fees and purchase commissary items such as soap and deodorant. Debt peonage is as common among prisoners as it is among the wider public. And when prisoners are released they often owe the state thousands of dollars in debt they incurred while locked up. When they can’t pay it back they are tossed back into prison. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that 75 percent of released prisoners are rearrested within five years. This keeps the perpetual cycle of neoslavery lubricated.
 
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rickyb

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ATTICA ATTICA ATTICA

i was watching a chris hedges tv show video interviewing some prison psycho therapist or whatever and he said the guards bully the prisoners and then beat them. in one case a prisoners head was gashed open. they threw another prisoner in the shower, turned the hot water on all the way and burned him to death. his skin was 90% peeled right off the bone.

"On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York rebelled in the face of intolerable conditions. They were sick of the racist-fueled violence of the white, rural guards; angry at poor medical care and the dearth of vocational and educational programs; underfed (the prison allocated only 63 cents a day to feed a prisoner); unhappy about their mail being censored, or destroyed if it was in Spanish; living in poorly ventilated cells with little or no heat or stifling heat; unable to buy basic commissary items on salaries that averaged 6 cents a day; and tired of being given only one bar of soap and one roll of toilet paper a month and allowed only one shower a week."

on a side note i dont get why people treat each other so poorly? i guess part of it could be when your trying to make more profits, its usually at someone elses expense; so this kind of mentality reverberates through society.
 

rickyb

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re: attica

"After three days of negotiations, in which the prison authorities refused to grant the rebellious prisoners amnesty, 550 New York state troopers, 200 sheriff’s deputies and numerous Attica prison guards were issued high-powered weapons, including rifles loaded with especially destructive bullets that expanded on impact, bullets banned in warfare under the Geneva Conventions."

..."Meanwhile, inside the retaken institution, many prisoners were suffering from gunshot wounds that would not be treated for days. Some were stripped and made to run gantlets in which they were beaten by guards with ax handles, baseball bats and rifle butts. Those singled out as the leaders of the rebellion were marked with Xs on their backs, forced to crawl through mud, tortured and in few cases, it appears, executed."

you cant call your country "free" (which it isnt anyways) when you treat prisoners like this
 
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