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ContagiousInspiration
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 Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 8:27 pm Post subject: Last week tonight - John Oliver -- "Prisons" - Blacks sent to prison for drugs at ten times the rate of whites. "Recidivism" advertised as investor incentive |
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https://m.youtube.com/?reload=7&rdm=16nggd52r#/watch?v=_Pz3syET3DY
Damn fine programming and a bit of an eye opener.. USAPC USA Prison Corp
One of the Corporate Prisons used "Recidivism" as a investor security selling point
Such a wonderful world Humans create
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Surfitall
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| Yes, he's doing a great job. Eye opening, depressing, and how in the world will this change any time in the near future? |
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ContagiousInspiration
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| Quote: | | Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don’t have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don’t like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells. |
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289 |
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ContagiousInspiration
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| Surfitall wrote: | | Yes, he's doing a great job. Eye opening, depressing, and how in the world will this change any time in the near future? |
Once rich people invest in something it doesn't change unless they lose profit or someone goes to war with them...
These people who own build and invest in these are just like Nazis.. The spirit of evil is real and expressed right there. |
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ContagiousInspiration
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| Quote: | Corrections Corporation of America Objects to Resolution to Lower Phone Rates, Increase Communication Between Prisoners and their Families
NASHVILLE, TN – Last Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted a request submitted by Corrections Corporation of America – the nation’s largest for-profit prison company – to exclude a shareholder resolution that sought to reduce the high cost of phone calls made by prisoners at CCA-operated correctional and detention facilities.
Research has found that prisoners who maintain close connections with family members while incarcerated have better post-release outcomes and lower recidivism rates. As many prisoners are housed at facilities far from their families, in-person visits are often difficult and phone calls are the primary means of communication.
The resolution, filed by Alex Friedmann, associate director of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), would have required CCA to forgo “commission” kickbacks from prison phone service providers. Such kickbacks are typically based on a percentage of revenue generated from inmate telephone services (ITS) – revenue that is mostly paid not by prisoners but by their families. |
Proof its profits before rehabilitation and recidivism as an investor incentive. Really hard not to feel hatred for CCA. |
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dood23
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| This is John Oliver now?! Something tells me I need to start watching. |
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the association
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And now be sure to mentally tie our collective conversation over the past few days regarding misconduct at the law enforcement / public safety and prosecutorial levels to this emerging picture of the prison-industrial complex with all of its ever-expanding tentacles, including:
1. FPI / UNICOR
2. C.O. unions (local, state and federal)
3. Courts (local, state and federal, incl. pretrial and probation functions)
4. Prosecutors (local, state and federal)
5. Investigating Agencies (local, state and federal, including related unions)
6. Defense Attorneys (retained, CJA panel, public defender)
7. Providers of Bail Bonds (agents)
8. Vendors that supply and provide services to jails, detention centers and prisons (many owned by powerful interests)
9. Masterful, coordinated lobbying to advance its economic interests in Congress and (perhaps especially) in the Court of Public Opinion
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10. For-profit correctional companies / private prisons
(as a very prominent member of the Senate is known to have remarked aloud, "I can't own stock in the BOP, but I can in these private prisons like CCA")
As many of us now know, the suggestion that every man or woman incarcerated in the U.S. today is actually, factually guilty of violating a criminal statute is simply untrue. Many are guilty. In fact, most are guilty. But some are most assuredly not guilty. So forget the very credible suggestion that most Americans, if not all of us, unwittingly commit several felonies every day based on a staggeringly unnatural expansion of codified law. Forget the abomination of capital punishment. Forget the toll this merciless prison-industrial complex has on families as it actively undermines efforts to reduce recidivism whilst it simultaneously primes the pump for its next group of "customers". And forget the reality that the adversarial bedrock of our criminal justice system has been corrupted for a very, very, very long time - corrupted by a monochromatic narrative mechanism that unambiguously values vengeful prosecutorial "wins" over justice.
Simply know that we are members of a community that prioritizes economic exploitation and vengeance above rehabilitation and forgiveness. And if you have children (or a glimmer of humanity coursing through your body), you'll understand how completely warped and horrendous that reality is ...
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KobeBryantCliffordBrown
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| the association wrote: | And now be sure to mentally tie our collective conversation over the past few days regarding misconduct at the law enforcement / public safety and prosecutorial levels to this emerging picture of the prison-industrial complex with all of its ever-expanding tentacles, including:
1. FPI / UNICOR
2. C.O. unions (local, state and federal)
3. Courts (local, state and federal, incl. pretrial and probation functions)
4. Prosecutors (local, state and federal)
5. Investigating Agencies (local, state and federal, including related unions)
6. Defense Attorneys (retained, CJA panel, public defender)
7. Providers of Bail Bonds (agents)
8. Vendors that supply and provide services to jails, detention centers and prisons (many owned by powerful interests)
9. Masterful, coordinated lobbying to advance its economic interests in Congress and (perhaps especially) in the Court of Public Opinion
and
10. For-profit correctional companies / private prisons
(as a very prominent member of the Senate is known to have remarked aloud, "I can't own stock in the BOP, but I can in these private prisons like CCA")
As many of us now know, the suggestion that every man or woman incarcerated in the U.S. today is actually, factually guilty of violating a criminal statute is simply untrue. Many are guilty. In fact, most are guilty. But some are most assuredly not guilty. So forget the suggestion that most Americans, if not all of us, unwittingly commit several felonies every day based on a staggeringly unnatural expansion of codified law. Forget the abomination of capital punishment. Forget the toll this merciless prison-industrial complex has on families as it actively undermines efforts to reduce recidivism whilst it simultaneously primes the pump for its next group of "customers". And forget the reality that the adversarial bedrock of our criminal justice system has been corrupted for a very, very, very long time - corrupted by a monochromatic narrative mechanism that unambiguously values vengeful prosecutorial "wins" over justice.
Simply know that we are members of a community that prioritizes economic exploitation and vengeance above rehabilitation and forgiveness. And if you have children (or a glimmer of humanity coursing through your body), you'll understand how completely warped and horrendous that reality is ... |
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| If you're so inclined, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is a brilliant book that covers this topic. |
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ringfinger
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John Oliver, like much of the media, is good for little else than entertainment.
Some of the stuff I've seen on his rants are funny, but factually wrong, but the sheeps eat it up like gospel. |
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Cutheon
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| GoldenThroat wrote: | | If you're so inclined, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is a brilliant book that covers this topic. |
Invisible Punishment is also an enlightening read on the subject. |
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ContagiousInspiration
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| ringfinger wrote: | John Oliver, like much of the media, is good for little else than entertainment.
Some of the stuff I've seen on his rants are funny, but factually wrong, but the sheeps eat it up like gospel. |
And so you offered to refute what part of the skit and with what?
I'm trying to think of the word to describe your posts.. I think it is curmudgeonly? |
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ContagiousInspiration
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| Is it Racism that locks them up, capitalism, compassion..what it be? |
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LakerDYnasty72
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| ContagiousInspiration wrote: | | Is it Racism that locks them up, capitalism, compassion..what it be? |
It starts from the basis of capitalism: the desire, covetousness, and willingness to gain at any expense, even humans.
Then the basis degenerates from capitalism to racism: who would be the best targets to exploit for our capitalistic/covetous desires? How can we justify it? Answer:target someone different from us. |
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ringfinger
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| Ugh. John Oliver. Entertainment but nothing more folks. |
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| the association wrote: | And now be sure to mentally tie our collective conversation over the past few days regarding misconduct at the law enforcement / public safety and prosecutorial levels to this emerging picture of the prison-industrial complex with all of its ever-expanding tentacles, including:
1. FPI / UNICOR
2. C.O. unions (local, state and federal)
3. Courts (local, state and federal, incl. pretrial and probation functions)
4. Prosecutors (local, state and federal)
5. Investigating Agencies (local, state and federal, including related unions)
6. Defense Attorneys (retained, CJA panel, public defender)
7. Providers of Bail Bonds (agents)
8. Vendors that supply and provide services to jails, detention centers and prisons (many owned by powerful interests)
9. Masterful, coordinated lobbying to advance its economic interests in Congress and (perhaps especially) in the Court of Public Opinion
and
10. For-profit correctional companies / private prisons
(as a very prominent member of the Senate is known to have remarked aloud, "I can't own stock in the BOP, but I can in these private prisons like CCA")
As many of us now know, the suggestion that every man or woman incarcerated in the U.S. today is actually, factually guilty of violating a criminal statute is simply untrue. Many are guilty. In fact, most are guilty. But some are most assuredly not guilty. So forget the very credible suggestion that most Americans, if not all of us, unwittingly commit several felonies every day based on a staggeringly unnatural expansion of codified law. Forget the abomination of capital punishment. Forget the toll this merciless prison-industrial complex has on families as it actively undermines efforts to reduce recidivism whilst it simultaneously primes the pump for its next group of "customers". And forget the reality that the adversarial bedrock of our criminal justice system has been corrupted for a very, very, very long time - corrupted by a monochromatic narrative mechanism that unambiguously values vengeful prosecutorial "wins" over justice.
Simply know that we are members of a community that prioritizes economic exploitation and vengeance above rehabilitation and forgiveness. And if you have children (or a glimmer of humanity coursing through your body), you'll understand how completely warped and horrendous that reality is ... |
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