Prison For Profit
December 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
When I see and read (cited articles in video infobar) things like this, it provides support to my view that, politicians use religion, and other distractions or dog whistle issues, while the big stuff happens in secret. Private prisons are “big stuff”. The business of war is the big stuff. They just use people who worry about abortion and gay marriage, to mask what’s really going on. It’s like ‘magicians’ or, sleight of hand artists. They aren’t really doing magic. The majority of people are distracted by the purposefully obvious, while the real trick is happening in plain sight, but few see it because they distracted. The only difference being, with a magician, people know they’re being tricked. I doesn’t seem like many Americans know that corporations own and manipulate our government to work for them.
Info below from video infobar:
TAA Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/YoutubeTAA
TAA twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/amazingatheist
TAA forums: http://forum.thatfatatheist.comAt the end of 2009, over 7 million people in the US were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=11The November Coalition
http://www.november.org/The Flourishing Private Prison Industry
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/06/matt-stoller-who-wants-keep-the-war-on…ACLU Infographic
http://www.infographicsshowcase.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/massincarcerat…The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23prison.12253738.html…Incarcerations Rates By Country
http://www.webcitation.org/5xRCN8YmRSince 1970, the prison population has increased by 700%!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/02/15/302239/-Pew-Research:-700-Growth-in-…CCA gave $106,614 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its political action committee – 15% to Democrats and 85% to Republicans. I can’t find this stat, but here are there contributions for 2010: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9OTkxMzB8Q2hpbGRJRD…
CCA spent well over $2 million for lobbying in 2007.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_AmericaCCA was also a major financial backer of the 2009 anti-immigration law in Arizona and according to internal documents CCA believes that imprisoning illegal immigrants will bring in “a significant portion of our revenues.” http://lake.typepad.com/on-the-lake-front/2010/12/cca-private-prisons-and-az-…