USA land of the free jails one in 100 American adults

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"America has 2.3 million people in prison -- more than any other country. More than one in 100 adults are in jail. No society in history has imprisoned more of its citizens. 1 in 9 black men aged between 20 and 34 is behind bars. There are more 17-year-old black American males in jail than in college. Ameriacan has five percent of the world's population but 25% of its prisoners. And prison labour is now a huge industry, producing an enormous range of goods, not least for the US military. It is in effect a revival of the slave trade.

Britain can't compete but is no slouch either, locking up more of its population -- 148 per 100,000 -- than any other European country, and more than China, India or Turkey."

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"And prison labour is now a huge industry, producing an enormous range of goods, not least for the US military. It is in effect a revival of the slave trade."

This is an aspect I find particularly disturbing, although the whole thing is disturbing. The trend of privatizing prisons leads to nothing more than a huge growth of this slave population. This is something that has started and is just going to continue in my own country under the bankster-puppet John Key. A prison that is run privately is run for profit, not rehabilitation of the prisoners. In fact, recidivism is seen as something they want as it keeps up the constant source of free-labour. Why would you want to rehabilitate someone to go out and become a positive, more productive member of society, earning their own living when you can sit back and get fat from their laborus and dehumanization.

All this while the real criminals sit in their fine offices behind their large desks.

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Prisons are profit centers now. The means exist to rehabilitate most all prisoners, but no one in authority cares. And many who are in jail are no threat to the rest of us.

I just read that a poor young girl in the UK was jailed for two years for accidentally running over and killing someone during her first driving lesson. That's absurd, she's no threat and it was an ACCIDENT. No intent, no negligence, just a terrible mistake. Jail? No!

[Davy]

More people are in Jail for drug use than anything else. Why? If someone wants to ingest something in their own bodies then let them its their body! Oh that's right it is too profitable for the govt to sell the drugs illegally, make the profit from the sale and incarcerate anyone they find with possession! They then throw them in jail and collect monetary fines and in turn they get to use them for free slave labor.... America has no freedoms and they Keep finding reasons and writing illegal bills to enslave even more of us. Land of the Free not anymore and hasnt been for a long time!

[Tony]

This film was made 2005. It was the beginning of the new slavery conveyor belt, with zero tolerance.
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When they run out of prisoners...they will come for you!
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[Tony]

So if you do not educate, you produce more inmates for the labour slave prison camps. can you see the pattern?


Validated Independent News
In the year 2006, 3.3 million students, or one in fourteen, were suspended or expelled.  This is due to the Zero-Tolerance Policy that has been in effect since 1994. In recent years this policy has negatively effected many students in the school systems.  The Zero-Tolerance Policy was first implemented to expel any student for a year that brought a weapon to school. Now this policy has been put into regular use for minor infractions made by students such as profanity, talking back, defiant behavior, and bringing over the counter medicines to school. Punishing students is doing more harm than good. Instead of giving these troubled students the services that they desperately need, schools are referring them to juvenile courts to address behaviors that can and should be handled by school administration.  Since students are introduced to the judicial system at such a young age, they are more likely to drop out of schools and encounter the judicial system again.
This Zero-Tolerance Policy is having a more direct effect on the African American population in the United States. Students of color are targeted by school officials more than white students and receive harsher punishments like suspension and expulsion. Currently, the United States has the highest incarceration rate. There are more African American men living in jail cells than in college dorm rooms today.

[Tony]

School to prison pipe-line....?
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[Tony]

This is totally inhuman......and you lot are still arguing about trivia!
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