Louisiana is the world's prison capital, page 2

private prison industry should be outlawed

www.cca.com...

Correctional Corporation of America has been in business since 1983, and they took in revenue of like 1.7 billion last year. What do you think happens when stockholders decide they need to be more profitable? Of course, lobby congress for stricter laws so they can keep their beds filled. This article disgusts me, but thanks for sharing.

I'm sad to say I'm kind of glad I don't live there anymore, nothing but sorrow with the French Quarter and the Tigers thrown in as diversion.

Anyway, in Louisiana, they are almost proud of the state penitentiary, Angola. It's legendary really. It even has it's own museum and a renown rodeo.

en.wikipedia.org...

Couple this with mandatory minimums, private prison contractors, extreme poverty and basically segregated everything and it's a recipe for even more sorrow.

reply to post by Anonymous404

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Don't do drugs and you won't go to prison, you are NOT going to outsmart the law.

reply to post by rbnhd76

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A total of 32 pot plants is manufacture with intent to distribute.

Originally posted by QQXXw
reply to post by Anonymous404

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Don't do drugs and you won't go to prison, you are NOT going to outsmart the law.

Neither will bogus legislation prancing and preening as if it were law. The United States imprisons more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world. More so than China does today, and more so than the Soviet Union did at the height of their tyranny. Creating the prison nation the United States has become had nothing to do with the wisdom of the law, and everything to do with legislation that thought it could outsmart the law.

reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux

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Don't do drugs, don't drink while drunk, basic stuff like this goes way over some people's heads and they end up in prison after getting too many warnings and giving cops bad attitude too many times. I know how the system works, it is by no means an unfair system.

Originally posted by QQXXw
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux

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Don't do drugs, don't drink while drunk, basic stuff like this goes way over some people's heads and they end up in prison after getting too many warnings and giving cops bad attitude too many times. I know how the system works, it is by no means an unfair system.

Something is going way over someones head, that is for certain. The system is beyond repair, it is flat out entropic and "fair" has nothing to do with it. It is tragically ignorant to preach your preach of "don't do drugs" while prescription drug overdoses now outnumber traffic fatalities.

Legislation is not law. Law is law.

Tell that to the criminals on Wall Street that constantly break the rules and are only fined a pittance, which is looked upon as the cost of doing business.
Who does more damage to society? A person busted for a victim-less crimes of owning a few plants or the psychopaths on Wall Street, gambling with peoples futures and livelihoods?

Also, I find it ironic on some of the people I have come across that support these for profit labor camps, yet out of the side of their mouth, talk about the evils of the labor camps in Russia and North Korea.

Originally posted by wantsome
reply to post by rbnhd76

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Don't break the rules and you don't have to worry about it. My freedom is more important then owning a few plants.

reply to post by ModernAcademia

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its tough out here.

people forget its not even been a full lifetime since the civil rights act. the worst part about being in the south is the accepted nature of bigotry. even though there is resistance to accept the civil rights act; the fact that it being so recent and peoples fathers grandfathers children etceteros cultivate and breed discontent associated with color means that even if the laws change those people will either reinvent another way to address their problem or redress them with themselves and project.

louisiana is highly dysfunctional regarding criminal justice and/the civil rights/act. if southerners were still bitter over turmoil, did not politically agree with desegregation, and were forced to follow an act of congress. it would take an act of congress for one random southerner to not have a bigoted perspective on "black anything related", let alone how this will effect politics should that person enact/enforce/create laws formal or informal.

reply to post by Xaphan

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but hes right though. the criminal justice system is a form of attempted legalized slavery in most parts of america and where blacks congregate.

Originally posted by Ausar
reply to post by Xaphan

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but hes right though. the criminal justice system is a form of attempted legalized slavery in most parts of america and where blacks congregate.

Meaning that police single out African Americans?
I'm not denying that. That's already a well known fact.

reply to post by Xaphan

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no im not saying that. correlation and tangent are not equal.

reply to post by ModernAcademia

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Gotta love capitalism in red states!!!!

reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux

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prescription drugs do a whole lot more good than harm, recreational drugs are the opposite. Your entire point has nothing to do with the current discussion anyway.

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