Mississippi Jails Are Losing Inmates, And Local Officials Are 'Devastated' By The Loss Of Revenue

[yortsed snacilbuper]

As the wave of mass incarceration begins to recede, the Mississippi controversy has local and state officials talking openly about how harmful locking up fewer people up will be for the economy, confirming the suspicions of those who have argued that mass incarceration is not merely a strategy directed at crime prevention. "

Under the administrations of Reagan and Clinton, incarceration, a social tool used for punishment, also became a major job creator ," Antonio Moore, a producer of the documentary "Crack in the System," wrote recently.

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[merrily]

1. "Follow the money."

[jomin41]

2. Goddam, these people are scumbags.

[Helen Borg]

3. Quick, gotta make masturbation an inprisonable offense!

[sorefeet]

4. America is a rackett

from prisons, to pharmaceuticals, to education, to the religious wackos, to Wal-Mart, to the drug war, to anything you can talk about. Some one is out to fuck you every day.

[avebury]

5. Viewing prisons as a revenue source shows jus how far the US

has declined.

[Bad Dog]

6. Certain individuals, and not very nice ones at that, will be a lot less wealthy.

As for the economy that's a load of bull. These rich individuals don't put that much back into the economy anyway.

[malaise]

7. Jim Crow Version 2 n/t

[bemildred]

8. Dirty Rotten Crooks. nt

[Arugula Latte]

9. They should vote for Hillary, then. She'll find more "superpredators" for them to re-stock

their shelves for $$$.

[Solly Mack]

10. K&R

[EllieBC]

11. If your economy was based on prisons and revenue from inmates,

you deserve to lose.

[MrScorpio]

12. Incarceration is nothing more today than modern day slavery nt

[Visionary]

13. Private prisons should be illegal

It should be illegal to make money by incarcerating your fellow citizens. Prisons should be solely government run and not be allowed to sell prisoner made products.