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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4938852" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>from my first post on this thread. thanks joe biden!:</p><p></p><p></p><p> Some states have begun to charge prisoners rent. This gouging is burying many prisoners and their families in crippling debt, debt that prisoners carry when they are released from prison. The United States has 2.3 million people in prison, <strong>25 percent of the world’s prison population, although we are only 5 percent of the world’s population.</strong>We have <strong>increased our prison population by about 700 percent since 1970. Corporations control about 18 percent</strong> of federal prisoners and 6.7 percent of all state prisoners. And corporate prisons account for nearly all newly built prisons. Nearly half of all immigrants detained by the federal government are shipped to corporate-run prisons. And <strong>slavery is legal in prisons</strong> under the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 4938852, member: 56035"] from my first post on this thread. thanks joe biden!: Some states have begun to charge prisoners rent. This gouging is burying many prisoners and their families in crippling debt, debt that prisoners carry when they are released from prison. The United States has 2.3 million people in prison, [B]25 percent of the world’s prison population, although we are only 5 percent of the world’s population.[/B]We have [B]increased our prison population by about 700 percent since 1970. Corporations control about 18 percent[/B] of federal prisoners and 6.7 percent of all state prisoners. And corporate prisons account for nearly all newly built prisons. Nearly half of all immigrants detained by the federal government are shipped to corporate-run prisons. And [B]slavery is legal in prisons[/B] under the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” [/QUOTE]
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