Whatever you may think a prisoner deserves as punishment, big business does not deserve to exploit them as slave labor.
Most of these prisoners are paid $.17-$1.50/hour to make products you consume. Their wares are all over the market from corporations like Microsoft, Starbucks, Nintendo, Motorola, Honeywell and Dell. These are jobs being taken from Americans and given to prisoners.
Prisoners who don't have a choice whether or not they want to work.
Prisoners, who now have to pay for medical services from their 'pay' and are not covered by worker's compensation. Medical services you, as a taxpayer, contribute to should they be injured on the job.
This graph illustrates the increase in prison population from 1920-2005 *note: the war on drugs began in 1971.
CCA handles more than 50% of government contracts for privatized prisons.
Most of these prisoners are paid $.17-$1.50/hour to make products you consume. Their wares are all over the market from corporations like Microsoft, Starbucks, Nintendo, Motorola, Honeywell and Dell. These are jobs being taken from Americans and given to prisoners.
Prisoners who don't have a choice whether or not they want to work.
Prisoners, who now have to pay for medical services from their 'pay' and are not covered by worker's compensation. Medical services you, as a taxpayer, contribute to should they be injured on the job.
This graph illustrates the increase in prison population from 1920-2005 *note: the war on drugs began in 1971.
CCA handles more than 50% of government contracts for privatized prisons.
They have contracts with corporations like UNICOR.
Prisons are big business now and everyone wonders why recidivism rates are as high as they are.
"In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal."
They wonder why they can't keep people out of prison. The logical conclusion is, they don't want to make it easier for them to not re-offend, they need these beds filled.
People wonder why they've lost their jobs.
They're outraged by outsourcing.
Outsourcing to other countries might be an issue, but so is outsourcing to prisoners.
The more desperate you make people to survive, the more crime will increase, filling ever more beds for these corporations to exploit the prisoners occupying those beds as labor.
"When you transform a person from a human to a piece of property, that's called slavery."
Prisons are big business now and everyone wonders why recidivism rates are as high as they are.
"In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal."
They wonder why they can't keep people out of prison. The logical conclusion is, they don't want to make it easier for them to not re-offend, they need these beds filled.
People wonder why they've lost their jobs.
They're outraged by outsourcing.
Outsourcing to other countries might be an issue, but so is outsourcing to prisoners.
The more desperate you make people to survive, the more crime will increase, filling ever more beds for these corporations to exploit the prisoners occupying those beds as labor.
"When you transform a person from a human to a piece of property, that's called slavery."
