Inmates Are Planning The Largest Prison Strike in US History...

[Conde]

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[mojo]

they dont realize how well off things are in American prisons in comparison to places like Black Dolphin....

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[Fellow Aspirant]

Russia? That's setting the bar pretty low for humane treatment, don't you think?
And how is this supposed to make things better for the capitalist slave system operating in the states? One system at a time, please!
B.

[Atlas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tPgxV5qylQ
@18:48: "When one man saw the Presidential Decree changing the death penalty to life imprisonment, 5 minutes later he hung himself. Another did it 3 days later with his underpants. The fourth one spiked himself in the heart. Had they executed me, it would have spared me all this torture..."

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[Pam]

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I am disgusted to see these corporations exploiting prisoners. As long as they can do so, there will be incentive to fill those prisons in any way possible. The war on drugs has been a total failure in its stated mission and a total success in filling the prisons with workers and creating a head count for privatized companies running prisons.

I am not against allowing prisoners to work, in fact it can be productive. Why not have them perform services to better the communities that are paying for their upkeep? Why let corporations once again find a loophole to increase their profits? The bottom line is money, money, money.

It makes me cringe to think of the number of prisoners that are put into prisons unjustly or under corrupted laws that are in effect to keep the wheels of the system rolling. They have effectively becomes slaves that live to feed the beast.

[Satori]

I am disgusted to see these corporations exploiting prisoners. As long as they can do so, there will be incentive to fill those prisons in any way possible. The war on drugs has been a total failure in its stated mission and a total success in filling the prisons with workers and creating a head count for privatized companies running prisons.

I am not against allowing prisoners to work, in fact it can be productive. Why not have them perform services to better the communities that are paying for their upkeep? Why let corporations once again find a loophole to increase their profits? The bottom line is money, money, money.

It makes me cringe to think of the number of prisoners that are put into prisons unjustly or under corrupted laws that are in effect to keep the wheels of the system rolling. They have effectively becomes slaves that live to feed the beast.

So-called laws criminalizing more and more behavior, coupled with the creation of mandatory sentencing guidelines--all created by Congress and state Legislatures--parallels exactly the privatization of the prison system at both the federal and state level. When incarceration became a private, profit-making enterprise for the likes of Wackenhut and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), it became necessary to source the prisons with the needed inventory in the form of prisoners/laborers. Thus, Congress and state Legislatures dutifully complied and provided the inventory by criminalizing ever more conduct and imposing stiff prison sentences. "Three strikes and your out" is an example of this.

[Savannah]

I am very familiar with e CA prison system. Inmates work for the prison as porters cleaning or office assistants etc. There are some PIA jobs sewing seat cushions for the office chairs or clothes for prisoners that pay a wage. Part of the low salary goes to paying off their restitution, pay back to their victims. Many inmates want jobs in order to pass the time and feel productive. Often they work very little and stand around most of the day. Their are more prisoners than their are jobs. Their are few that seem to have been given harsh unjust sentences however that's a minority and generally due to the three strikes law(that is currently being reformed). The murders, rapists, child molesters, burglars, home invasions, car thieves etc. pose a real threat to the publics safety. Granted getting people hooked on meth has doubled the prison population due possession or committing some the crimes just listed. That is a separate problem and not caused by prisons. Do they profit from it, yes, but they didn't cause it.

[Atlas]

[...] pay back to their victims.
Which currency? Dollars, Euros,...?? Hmm...

American Slavery, Reinvented The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/

[DNA]

I've got to say, if I'm a competing business with say Starbucks, I'm going to use this type of information in my favor and stage atleast one protest a month in front of their business with information stating their crimes. Any competitive angle to get ahead, and hey, at the same time let people know the truth.

[shaberon]

American Slavery, Reinvented The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”


True. Slavery didn't technically go anywhere, except through the courts. However, twenty-three cents an hour for a job you voluntarily applied for, is not slavery. And without "cruel and unusual punishment"--i. e., whip you to work--I am not sure how slavery would function at all there. Community service assigned to a person not in prison, more closely resembles unpaid, involuntary labor--and maybe even that is voluntary, since you could refuse and go to prison and get paid >.<

Isn't prison the place where Victoria's Secret attaches "made in USA" labels on foreign-made garments?