Comments on: The Prison Industrial Complex: Biased, Predatory and Growing

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:42:48 +0000

i appreciate you sharing this incredibly important work.
the only thing left to be put in place is broad and publicly accepted use of the prisoners as a cheap labor force … THEN we’ll be right back to what Douglas A. Blackmon explored in… his book _Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II_

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:13:40 +0000

the US incarceration industry is deliberately maintained in violation of the Human Rights, to perpetuate the injustice, inequality, slavery and genocide,
that catering to completely corrupt and criminal judicial system and ongoing gualg economy, for unfair and illegal capitalization from slave labor of defenceless hostages of the prison system….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:08:48 +0000

Thank God someone has read my mind and started to bring to light these Edwardian tactics that Prison Officials have been using for quite sometime. The big businesses are found in due time belonging to many of Americas most elevated beautiful people living behind dirty money profiteered by misery. The immigrant detention schemes are geared to profit share and gain momentum for the stock holders at the helm. Most of the minorities that are detained are in the small percentage of people that have no one to stand up for them and their rights have already been taken. I have spent many years working in and around the Correction & Criminal Justice System and there is no ‘JUSTICE’ in the words ‘Just Us’ they are there for only one thing an that is to make money and to harm and emasculate as many males and raping and pillaging of women in there ranks. Hopefully this article fulfills some of the injustices that are being done to People in the name of America!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:37:41 +0000

So, like Chrysler and some others, the private prison companies are now on welfare. We are not safer and crime is not reduced, but millions is being made from the suffering of minority populations with no one toadvocate or assist their pathology. Perhaps I am being harsh – but it sounds like slavery again for African-American males, forced farm work for Hispanics, forced railroad building for the Asians and as American as cherry pie. The police and courts help feed the beast so it also smacks of ethnic cleansing. What is sad is that culturally, as during slavery, the communities cooperate with their own destruction by building cultural support around the actitivies that feed it, i.e. gangs and gang warfare. However, until those same communities stand up and protest and fight against the system of it, and, until the people that work in the system, many of whom are people of color themselves, stand up and demand right doing – it will continue. What is the saying? “Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.” Sad. It is nothing but genocide for profit – it started in the 70′s with disparate sentencing for “urban” type crimes to make sure Black males would not rebel again and form groups like the Panthers and in true capitalist fashion, someone has discovered a way to profit from our pathology. It’s the American way.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:23:11 +0000

I wasn’t awared of the extent of privately owned and run prisons. You just think of “prison” and only hear about the state and federal facilities. Big brother has many siblings/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:45:54 +0000

Thank you for a most enlightening article. I had no idea the private prison industry was so huge.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:10:59 +0000

Oversight should be done a Commission of private citizens with no ties to the industry.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:30:51 +0000

Thank you so very much for bringing attention to this growing problem. I have submitted many posts to CNN ireport regarding the prison moneymaking-profiteering from misery situation in America’s prisons as well as the punitive nature of American Justice which falls mainly to minorities. Kentucky, adjacent to my current home in Cincinnati, had 30% black prison population with only 9% of the population being black. I’ve witnessed the discrimination throughout the courts and jails over the past 5 years and someone really needs to highlight this and continue hammering on it until change comes. It is as if no one is challenging them. Minorities are more likely to be stopped, more likely to be charged and with high charges than whites in the same set of circumstances, more likely to be convicted, more likely to receive harsher sentences, and less likely to be paroled. The statistics prove it. ICE is an even darker version as you say than the prison systems. The human rights violations are being reported outside the U.S. Lack of food and water, etc. Pls continue reporting and thanks very much for bringing attention to this.