The Business of Mass Incarceration By Chris Hedges

[damnedifIknow]

* The failure on the part of the white liberal class to decry the exploding mass incarceration of the poor, and especially of African-Americans, means that as our empire deteriorates more and more whites will end up in prison alongside those we have condemned because of our indifference. And the mounting abuse of the poor is fueling an inchoate rage that will eventually lead to civil unrest."

* Incarceration has become a very lucrative business for an array of private contractors, most of whom send lobbyists to Washington to make sure the laws and legislation continue to funnel a steady supply of poor people into the prison complex. These private contractors, taking public money, build the prisons, provide food service, hire guards and run and administer detention facilities. It is imperative to their profits that there be a steady supply of new bodies."

https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_business_of_mass_incarceration_20130728/

[Chakaconcarne]

1. some of these prisons are farming tilapia...

And making decent money at it. What's next? Corn, dairy, autos?

[Doctor_J]

2. I finally disagree with Hedges

that will eventually lead to civil unrest."

Nothing will lead to civil unrest in this country. Between the teabaggers and Hate Radio Nation, who think that we SHOULD lock up the poor and black, and the DINOs, who think that because the president is in favor of private prisons they should be too, who's going to protest?

[damnedifIknow]

3. Take away people's flat screens and Playstations

And watch the streets be filled with angry mobs.

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

4. i wouldn't bet on it

there is always a tipping point

[Doctor_J]

5. I dunno

Vote suppression, pension theft, drone killing, election theft, half trillion dollar war budget...all of these together didn't cause a revolt. What do you think it will take?

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

6. I'd say at least a decade of the new normal

No more living wage paying jobs... Say 2020