Here's a few links...
href> "http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2006/0106sturr.html" The Political Economy of the Prison Crisis
href> "http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/EVA110A.html" The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy
Another thing to mention is the number of people that are kept employed by every one person that is prosecuted...I found the statistic a few years ago and it was startling, something like 20+ people were employed by every prosecution. It was while I was doing some research regarding the US prison system & the conspiracy of the war on drugs, especially against poor people and minorities. It isn't going to stop. Too many people are employed by each person, and there's even MORE people employed when someone has to hire a lawyer to fight the system. Google it.
QueenBob
Originally posted by MaxBlack
Whenever you intimate that prisons are contributing to the economic crisis, I on one hand agree with you and then on the other hand disagree because of why prisons have become an economic influence in the first place.
Please allow me to elaborate. nip>
I say change because prisons became one of the first things I can remember that was outsourced to private for profit corporations. nip>
The more prisoners a Federal Penitentiary or State Prison had the more money was needed to justify the prison population. nip>
The more money there was in prison complexes the more prisoners were needed for everyone to make money, then the same corrupt corporations and new and extra corrupt officials allow legislation and laws that allow for the first big trial for use of marijuana which was shown to the public, the man got 45 years for less than an ounce of pot. This began a trend using drugs and focusing on minorities as a source for those prisons. nip>
