Why are so many Americans in jail?

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Why are so many Americans in jail?

America built mass incarceration: the wholesale imprisonment of entire populations. Why, exactly, are so many people in prison – more than the entire population of New Mexico? That’s our focus for this week’s video: how a crisis of capitalism created a surplus population of former workers concentrated in declining cities, and how politicians and capitalists – instead of helping those people, and building a better and more just economy – built a prison system larger than any other in the history of the world to warehouse them. Chase Madar, professor of law at NYU Gallatin, explains.

 
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Too many greedy criminal nut bars running the private prison system maybe?​

Private Prisons Suing States for Millions to Stay Full​

Low crime rates bad for business for private prisons; they demand states keep them full

The prison-industrial complex is so out of control that private prisons have the sheer audacity to order states to keep beds full or face their wrath with stiff financial penalties, according to reports. Private prisons in some states have language in their contracts that state if they fall below a certain percentage of capacity that the states must pay the private prisons millions of dollars, lest they face a lawsuit for millions more.​

And guess what? The private prisons, which are holding cash-starved states hostage, are getting away with it, says advocacy group, In the Public Interest.

In the Public Interest has reviewed more than 60 contracts between private prison companies and state and local governments across the country, and found language mentioning “quotas” for prisoners in nearly two-thirds of those contracts reviewed. Those quotas can range from a mandatory occupancy of, for example, 70 percent occupancy in California to up to 100 percent in some prisons in Arizona.

How Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up​

As California attorney general, she spent years subverting a 2011 Supreme Court ruling requiring the state to reduce its prison population. The overseeing judicial panel nearly found the state in contempt of court.

The Climate Danger of Kamala Harris’ Prison Labor Legacy​

Harris’ office was a major proponent of the incarcerated wildland firefighting program during her time as state attorney general.



Yup, them darn Trump haters. Of course there is kamaltoe trapping non violent labor in like a welfare mum baby factory would do with guys that have jobs and the soros funded DA's letting all the violent ones OUT to terrorize property and business owners for his own nefarious purposes.
 

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Of course buddy in the video doesn't mention about white flight - that at the time, the story was all about how letting other races into expensive working neighborhoods dropped the real-estate value of the whole neighborhood, driving the upper-class people out to the newly built suburbs instead of just selling housing to the other races in the subs in the first place - for obvious profit reasons.

Then you have the war on crime, the war on drugs, the war on poverty, and lately, the war on police and the war on people with a different opinion.
 

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BlackRock and Vanguard are the biggest investors in private prisons​


BlackRock, Inc. (BLK)
Oh yeah, of course; some CRIMINAL bankers

VANGUARD GROUP INC. INFO
Well well well. Chinese slave labor Apple, Microsoft, amazon, facebook, and the people who got fined millions for starting the opiate pill crime epidemic, Johnson and Johnson are top of the list, Go figure.

Johnson & Johnson found guilty of role in opioid epidemic​


Apple benefits from forced Uighur labor at its iPhone supplier factories in China, according to an explosive new report​