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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2382997" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>The wreckage left behind by <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/148362/19_mind-blowing_facts_about_the_deindustrialization_of_america" target="_blank">deindustrialization</a> 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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2382997, member: 56035"] The wreckage left behind by [URL='http://www.alternet.org/story/148362/19_mind-blowing_facts_about_the_deindustrialization_of_america']deindustrialization[/URL] 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. [/QUOTE]
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