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Re: 5 Years for Passing a Joint: Stop this Bill No (none / 0) (#92)
by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Apr 17, 2005 at 10:08:59 PM EST
I wasn't able to read each and every comment here, so if someone caught this angle and I am repeating, I apologize. When I saw this article, it struck me as something other than what it appears at face value. When something as evil as this appears, you can usually find money at the bottom of it. Wackenhut, who has now changed their name to something else due to negative press (can't remember it now) is a corporation on the stock exchange that deals in human slave labor via our prison system. From what I can gather, private business is now is the business of running our prisons. Not all, but a lot of them. They actually sell shares on the open market of this venture. The prisoners are used as labor and this is another way jobs are being outsourced, to prisoners working for this corporation. I saw a documentary on this awhile back and their goal is to "keep the beds full" because if they are empty, there is less profit. (Don't get me wrong, I see nothing wrong with prisoners doing some work to earn their keep, but this isn't about that, it's about profit for big corporations.) In this doc. it was also said that the people who are convicted on lesser offenses, LIKE DRUG CHARGES make the "best employees" because they are basically nonviolent and easier to "handle". This answers the question of why anyone would want a bill like this to pass. It guarantees long-term labor for big corporations. Another way to bring American jobs out of the mainstream and into another cheap labor market.

5 Years for Passing a Joint: Stop this Bill Now | 93 comments (93 topical)

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