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San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year
www.sfbayview.com/030806/usprison030806.shtml
U.S. prison industry: big business or a new form of slavery?
by Vicky Pelaez
Activists protest the American Corrections Association prison industry
trade
show.
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.
There are over 2 million inmates in state, federal and private prisons
throughout the country. According to California Prison Focus, "No other
society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens."
The figures show that the United States has locked up more people than
any other country: a half million more than China, which has a
population five times greater than the U.S. Statistics reveal that the
United States holds 25 percent of the world's prison population but
only 5 percent of the world's people.
From less than 300,000 inmates in 1972, the jail population grew to 2
million by the year 2000. In 1990 it was 1 million. Ten years ago,
there were only five private prisons in the country with a population
of 2,000 inmates; now, there are 100, with 62,000 inmates. It is
expected that by the coming decade, the number will hit 360,000,
according to reports.
What has happened over the last 10 years? Why are there so many
prisoners?
"The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to
lock people up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders
who make money off prisoners' work lobby for longer sentences in order
to expand their workforce. The system feeds itself," says a study by
the Progressive Labor Party, which accuses the prison industry of being
"an imitation of Nazi Germany with respect to forced slave labor and
concentration camps."
The prison industry complex is one of the fastest-growing industries in
the United States and its investors are on Wall Street. "This
multimillion-dollar industry has its own trade exhibitions,
conventions, websites and mail-order and Internet catalogs. It also has
direct
advertising campaigns, architecture companies, construction companies,
investment houses on Wall Street, plumbing supply companies, food
supply companies, armed security and padded cells in a large variety of
colors."
According to the Left Business Observer, the federal prison industry
produces 100 percent of all military helmets, ammunition belts,
bullet-proof vests, ID tags, shirts, pants, tents, bags and canteens.
Along with war supplies, prison workers supply 98 percent of the entire
market for equipment assembly services; 93 percent of paints and
paintbrushes; 92 percent of stove assembly; 46 percent of body armor;
36 percent of home appliances; 30 percent of headphones, microphones
and speakers; and 21 percent of office furniture. Airplane parts,
medical supplies and much more: prisoners are even raising seeing-eye
dogs for blind people.
Crime goes down, jail population goes up
According to reports by human rights organizations, these are the
factors that increase the profit potential for those who invest in the
prison industry complex:
.. Jailing persons convicted of non-violent crimes and long prison
sentences for possession of microscopic quantities of illegal drugs.
Federal law stipulates five years' imprisonment without possibility of
parole for possession of 5 grams of crack or 3.5 ounces of heroin, and
10 years for possession of less than 2 ounces of rock-cocaine or crack.
A sentence of 5
years for cocaine powder requires possession of 500 grams - 100 times
more than the quantity of rock cocaine for the same sentence. Most of
those who use cocaine powder are white, middle-class or rich people,
while mostly Blacks and Latinos use rock cocaine. In Texas, a person
may be sentenced for up to two years' imprisonment for possessing 4
ounces of marijuana. In New York, the 1973 Nelson Rockefeller anti-drug
law provides for a mandatory prison sentence of 15 years to life for
possession of 4 ounces of any illegal drug.
.. The passage in 13 states of the "three strikes" laws (life in prison
after being convicted of three felonies) made it necessary to build 20
new federal prisons. One of the most disturbing cases resulting from
this measure was that of a prisoner who for stealing a car and two
bicycles received three 25-year sentences.
.. Longer sentences.
.. The passage of laws that require minimum sentencing, without regard
for circumstances.
.. A large expansion of work by prisoners, creating profits that
motivate the incarceration of more people for longer periods of time.
.. More punishment of prisoners, so as to lengthen their sentences.
History of prison labor in the United States
Prison labor has its roots in slavery. After the 1861-1865 Civil War, a
system of "hiring out prisoners" was introduced in order to continue
the
slavery tradition. Freed slaves were charged with not carrying out
their sharecropping commitments (cultivating someone else's land in
exchange for part of the harvest) or petty thievery - which were almost
never proven - and were then "hired out" for cotton picking, working in
mines and building railroads.
From 1870 until 1910 in the state of Georgia, 88 percent of hired-out
convicts were Black. In Alabama, 93 percent of hired-out miners were
Black. In Mississippi, a huge prison farm similar to the old slave
plantations replaced the system of hiring out convicts.
The notorious Parchman plantation existed until 1972.
During the post-Civil War period, Jim Crow racial segregation laws were
imposed on every state, with legal segregation in schools, housing,
marriages and many other aspects of daily life. "Today, a new set of
markedly racist laws is imposing slave labor and sweatshops on the
criminal justice system, now known as the prison industry complex,"
comments the Left Business Observer.
Who is investing? At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of
prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside
state prisons. The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S.
corporate society: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T Wireless,
Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel,
Lucent
Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom's, Revlon,
Macy's, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores and many more.
All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generated
by prison labor. Just between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392
million to $1.31 billion.
Inmates in state penitentiaries generally receive the minimum wage for
their work, but not all; in Colorado, they get about $2 per hour, well
under the minimum. And in privately-run prisons, they receive as little
as 17 cents per hour for a maximum of six hours a day, the equivalent
of $20 per month.
The highest-paying private prison is CCA in Tennessee, where prisoners
receive 50 cents per hour for what they call "highly skilled
positions." At those rates, it is no surprise that inmates find the pay
in federal prisons to be very generous. There, they can earn $1.25 an
hour and work eight hours a day and sometimes overtime. They can send
home $200-$300 per month.
Thanks to prison labor, the United States is once again an attractive
location for investment in work that was designed for Third World labor
markets. A company that operated a maquiladora (assembly plant in
Mexico near the border) closed down its operations there and relocated
to San Quentin State Prison in California.
In Texas, a factory fired its 150 workers and contracted the services
of prisoner-workers from the private Lockhart Texas prison, where
circuit boards are assembled for companies like IBM and Compaq.
Oregon state Rep. Kevin Mannix recently urged Nike to cut its
production in Indonesia and bring it to his state, telling the shoe
manufacturer that "there won't be any transportation costs; we're
offering you competitive prison labor (here)."
Private prisons
The prison privatization boom began in the 1980s under the governments
of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. but reached its height in 1990
under William Clinton, when Wall Street stocks were selling like
hotcakes. Clinton's program for cutting the cutting the federal
workforce resulted in the Justice Department's contracting of private
prison corporations for theincarceration of undocumented workers and
high-security inmates.
Private prisons are the biggest business in the prison industry
complex. About 18 corporations guard 10,000 prisoners in 27 states. The
two largest are Correctional Corporation of America (CCA) and
Wackenhut, which togethercontrol 75 percent.
Private prisons receive a guaranteed amount of money for each prisoner,
independent of what it costs to maintain each one. According to Russell
Boraas, a private prison administrator in Virginia, "The secret to low
operating costs is having a minimal number of guards for the maximum
number of prisoners."
The CCA has an ultra-modern prison in Lawrenceville, Virginia, where
five guards on dayshift and two at night watch over 750 prisoners. In
these prisons, inmates may get their sentences reduced for "good
behavior," but for any infraction, they get 30 days added - which means
more profits for CCA. According to a study of New Mexico prisons, it
was found that CCA inmates lost "good behavior time" at a rate eight
times higher than those in state prisons.
Importing and exporting inmates
Profits are so good that now there is a new business: importing inmates
with long sentences, meaning the worst criminals. When a federal judge
ruled that overcrowding in Texas prisons was cruel and unusual
punishment, the CCA signed contracts with sheriffs in poor counties to
build and run new jails and share the profits.
According to a December 1998 Atlantic Monthly magazine article, this
program was backed by investors from Merrill-Lynch, Shearson-Lehman,
American Express and Allstate, and the operation was scattered all over
rural Texas. That state's governor, Ann Richards, followed the example
of Mario Cuomo in New York and built so many state prisons that the
market became flooded, cutting into private prison profits.
After a law signed by Clinton in 1996 - ending court supervision and
decisions - caused overcrowding and violent, unsafe conditions in
federal prisons, private prison corporations in Texas began to contact
other states whose prisons were overcrowded, offering "rent-a-cell"
services in the CCA prisons located in small towns in Texas. The
commission for a rent-a-cell salesman is $2.50 to $5.50 per day per
bed. The county gets $1.50 for each prisoner.
Statistics
Ninety-seven percent of 125,000 federal inmates have been convicted of
non-violent crimes. It is believed that more than half of the 623,000
inmates in municipal or county jails are innocent of the crimes they
areaccused of. Of these, the majority are awaiting trial.
Two-thirds of the one million state prisoners have committed
non-violent offenses. Sixteen percent of the country's 2 million
prisoners suffer frommental illness.This story, originally published in
El Diario-La Prensa, New York, wasreprinted in the Cuban newspaper
Granma, www.granma.cu.
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www.prisonexp.org <-- The Cancer Thriving On American Government
Corruption
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/iraqis_tortured/ <== Example of how
"professional" guards look when the standard Blue-Wall-Of-Silence is
not set up to hide them.... These guards came directly from their
stateside jobs at normal U.S. prisons.
http://www.journeyforjustice.org/ <- 2 Million Prisoners: March On DC
---> see ya next year!!!
http://www.insidethewalls.com/ <-- Want a better understanding of what
prisoners are going through (and at the same time give a victim of
ameirca's broken justice system one small ray of hope)? These are human
beings are every day under the jack-booted heel of an inhumane
system... some are not surviving... some barely are. Write to one and
begin to understand on your own what america is doing to itself.
Nixon is spinning in his grave wondering when Bush will be impeached.
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Karl Rove exposed, thus destroying, a legitimate undercover CIA
operation that was protecting the U.S. and the world from black market
nuclear weapons... WHY? because they had proven that Bush was lying
about WMD's in Iraq before the 2004 elections. Karl Rove, one of the
main people who tells Bush what to say(everyone knows Bush is dumb as a
rock) is guilty of TREASON.
[Fifty obsessed pro Bush-Regime liars on Usenet are not Going to be
able to Save Bush's *****. From dickheads who claim that the objection to
Bolton is not that he says the U.N. should not exist, to retards who
claim the Horse-Jerker Bush is not a sadistic evil puppet of the
corporate-Oil-Oligarchy... Bush is a lame duck, McCain knows it well
and is salivating for the campaign to begin... if the only part of his
soul that McCain has to sell to Satan's Bush-Regime is to offer them
all pardons and safety from war-crime prosecution he will do it. But we
Americans should not allow this by electing McCain. It is time for the
Republican Party of Criminals to go the way of the Dodo.... Granted
some other corrupt party will surely replace it... but Repugs are so
corrupt that anything would be an improvement. SIMPLY REPEATING LIES
OVER AND OVER AND MORE AND MORE LOUDLY IS LIKE A MACHINE GUN SHOOTING
BLANKS IS NOT HELPING THE BUSH-REGIME... SOON ALL PEOPLE WILL FULLY
COMPREHEND WHAT LIARS YOU ARE ... YOU ARE SIMPLY SPEEDING THE ARRIVAL
OF THAT DAY... NOT ARCHIVING YOUR POSTS IN ORDER THAT PEOPLE NOT BE
ABLE TO QUOTE YOUR LIES IN YOUR FACE NEXT WEEK IS SIMPLY ANOTHER
EXAMPLE OF HOW WEAK-MINDED YOU ARE TO THINK THAT WILL WORK.]
[Considering that Bush and the rest of the Bush whitehouse are going to
be impeached and tried for war crimes and criminal incompetance -- WHAY
IS BUSH BEING PERMITTED TO STACK THE SUPREME COURT?]
[Note: Legalizing all drugs would significantly reduce the motive for
gangs to exist... and after all the criminalization of drugs is a crime
against human rights... so what, drugs are a health problem that the
individual creates for himself... next they'll be arresting Newport
smokers]
[Note: Because Cop's have taken an oath to support corrupt "laws" (eg
the drug laws) then Cop's are by definition corrupt... the differences
being a matter of degree]
[Note: To some degree the despicable conditions of american prisons
could be assuaged, however with 2.5 million americans in US prisons,
and that number is still growing, this will not happen. On the other
hand, a deeper understanding of the sickness of the whole concept of
prison can be found at www.prisonexp.org Sitting judges are now
speaking out and pointing out that 90% of the people currently in
prison would not be there if only drugs were not illegal... The main
obstacle to making american inJustice System into one that actually has
something to do with justice is the political lobbies from the corrupt
prison industry, the corrupt police and drug enforcement industry, and
the corrupt justice system industry itself. The prison industry is a
cancer on american society which is costing taxpayers hundreds of
billions of dollars. Another 400,000 prisoners has been added to the
total incarcerated in just the past couple of years]
[To save time I am now getting together a few stock response to the
articles I post... as my Bush-Lies-Loving detractors are showing such
appreciation. The difficulty in a sound bite response to the sex
offender issue is that it is somewhat multi-faceted and the issue is
being exploited in so many negative ways by the lying politicians. In
prisons you have the extreme abuse to the point of torture added to the
normal deprivations... -- and it is already very distressing that the
normal deprivtions on all prisoners is not preparing them for a good
life but rather teaching them only deeper fear and hatred -- so in
order to grease the wheel of hatred, prisons use the living sacrifice
of those rightly or wrongly convicted of sex crimes eg a girlfirend who
accuses you of rape or assault can get you the sex crime label.... So
in order confuse the average prisoners about all the crimes being done
to them by guards, the prisons use the "sex-offenders" as goats to
point to and say, "You think you are being treated bad... look at him."
and the other prisoners hatred and threat to
life and sometimes murder is directed against the "sex offenders" as a
kind of sadistic prison sport... this is your great prison system of
america... a few more steps of devolution and they will be feeding
Christians to the lions.... All to keep public focus away from the
crimes their government is doing more and more every day.... Just stay
glued to Fox, morons.]
[Note: The myth that any useful "information" -rather than useless
information- can be gained from torturing someone is based on the
perverted psychosis of those who gain sexual satisfaction and swear
that "torturing people is a good thing"]
[Note: Giving Tasers to prison guards is effectively giving a torture
tool and the ready alibi "Hey we didn't know it would kill him." to
guards we already know are mentally imbalanced... these prisoners are
being tortured to death and anyone who believes the lie that the guards
are doing this unknowingly... I have some ocean front property in
Arizona I want to sell you]
www.prisonexp.org
[Note: If you really want to understand the peaceful message of Jesus
Christ -as even paid homage by people such as Mahatma Gandhi- do not
look to the Southern Baptists who do things like kick people out for
not swearing allegiance to BUSH... Here is a site with the a good tips
in the search for the meaning of the Gospels:
www.spirituality.com ... the key is understanding not blind fear and
hatred]
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LOOK OUT MAGIC BULLETS -- The connection of the Bush family controlled
Oil-Oligarchy/Military-industrial-complex to the coup de etat of the
U.S. in the 60's assaintaions of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King,
and Robert F. Kennedy. Fascism has only made advances by hiding inside
the CIA and NSA.
http://www.savethemales.ca/130202.html
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The Number One Issue For All Voters Is To Destroy the Crooked
Diebold(and other) Voting Machines... the time for bought and paid for
elections in the U.S.A. must end.
With the news this week of the Enron Accounting Company, Arther
Anderson, having its conviction overturned for intentionally shredding
Enron Accounting files in order to subvert prosecution of both
themselves and Enron.... THAT IS ARTHER ANDERSON WAS FOUND GUILTY UNTIL
THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED THE CONVICTION!!! With that we now have
evidence of how all crooks will get away with it if they are strong
Bush supporters.
It is loudly clear to all that Bush-Regime plan, when confronted with
their clear guilt, (as the Newsweek scandal proved last week, with
first Bush-Regime forcing Newsweek to retract, then the story being
proven true from many other sources, then BUSH INSISTING that ALL
those CONFRONTING him with the TRUTH are "ABSURD" ) ... thus it is now
clear that the Bush-Regime when confronted with their guilt will only
lie more loudly. --- a pattern that we on usenet newgroups see as
standard operating procedure for Bush-Lies supporters. ---
SO I AM MAKING THIS PLEA TO ALL VOTERS EVERYWHERE.
THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE BEFORE US TODAY IS TO RE-ESTABLISH LEGITMACY
TO THE VOTING MACHINES.
We have seen Diebold, the main company making the machines make
promises of delivering the elections to the Bush-Regime.
Democracy in the U.S. has almost (if not already) been destroyed by the
lies being repeated over and over like a machine gun from the highest
offices of government.
As the Newsweek scandal showed the Bush-Regime will even force high
visible media outlets to print lies that everyone knows are lies.
IN OTHER WORDS CAN ANYONE BELIEVE ANY OF THE POLLING COMPANIES???
THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR ALL VOTERS SHOULD BE TO RE-ESTABLISH
LEGITMACY OF THE VOTING PROCESS!!!
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www.prisonexp.org <-- The Cancer Thriving On American Government
Corruption
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/iraqis_tortured/ <== Example of how
"professional" guards look when the standard Blue-Wall-Of-Silence is
not set up to hide them.... These guards came directly from their
stateside jobs at normal U.S. prisons.
http://www.journeyforjustice.org/ <- 2 Million Prisoners: March On DC
---> see ya next year!!!
http://www.insidethewalls.com/ <-- Want a better understanding of what
prisoners are going through (and at the same time give a victim of
ameirca's broken justice system one small ray of hope)? These are human
beings are every day under the jack-booted heel of an inhumane
system... some are not surviving... some barely are. Write to one and
begin to understand on your own what america is doing to itself.
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
http://www.tvnewslies.org
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3308.htm <-- Bush
Crime Family
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
http://www.thelawparty.com/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm
http://www.rotten.com/library/history/war/wmd/saddam/ <--
chronological history of the WMD Bush Lie
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/mckinney_grills_rumsfeld.htm <--
Rumsfeld grilled on Dyncorp Sex Rings, Missing Pentagon Trillions 9/11
Wargames
http://mindprod.com/iraq.html <-- photos of Bush War Crimes
http://www.troopsoutnow.org/
http://www.commondreams.org/
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WILL THE "ANTI-CHRIST" KNOW THAT ABOUT THEMSELVES
--- OF COURSE NOT!!!!
Why would anyone knowingly be the "anti-christ?"
This whole Prophesy aspect to Revelations seems to only be possible if
such a person would not understand their own guilt.
This would be an aspect of "Pushing the envelope..."
For instance invading another country, taking the world to war, because
you have deluded yourself into thinking that "Might makes Right" or
that those who do not profess your bizarre perversion of Jesus's
message are the problem... when in fact you are the problem. Or
because keeping the Corporate-Oil-Oligarchy in power seems
intrinsically right to you. IN OTHER WORDS YOU HAVE NO COMPREHENSION
OF JESUS'S MESSAGE ... BUT THINK YOU DO... ie you are an anti-christ.
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Texas is known for being the state with the dirtiest politicians in the
USA.
Question: What would JFK have done with Social Security?
THE ANSWER HAS TO DO WITH ANOTHER REASON THE FLEDGLING BUSH-REGIME'S
CIA ASSASSINATED JFK. (that was over forty years ago the "fledgling
Bush-Regime" is no longer "fledgling")
We are now at a historic time in the history of the USA. The CIA had
the Truth sealed away for 75 years, from Public Eye concerning what
really happened to JFK, RFK, MLK. Claiming it was for "National
Security" reasons. By the time that time period has expired the
Fascist takeover of the US will be complete and it will not only not
matter that the truth is known... the CIA killed the great Human Rights
leaders at the behest of the a small group of
Texas-Oil-Oligarchy-Corporate-Leaders, primarily the Bush-Family who
are now establishing themselves as the entrenched THUG-RULERS of the
most powerful military/intelligence/espionage/political system in the
history of mankind.
ie the "Anti-Christ" head of the world.
The only way this can happen is if the people let it... if the american
people remain asleep and allow a LIAR to keep LYING because they are
too afraid to STAND AGAINST THE LIAR.
One reason Ted Kennedy did not die the martyr's death of his two
brothers is because he decided it was not his fight alone. He did not
see the american people outraged enough to STAND UP AGAINST THE
LIARS... the average american is like Ted Kennedy... "let someone else
fix the problem..." that is entirely what the entrenched Bush Regime
with the CIA in its pocket is hoping americans and the rest of the
world will will say to themselves... for then the problem will not be
fixed.
Mantra of the Insane Bush-Regime:
"WAR IS GOOD BUSINESS, WAR IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS, WAR STIMULATES THE
ECONOMY... OH YEAH LOTS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE DIE TOO... OH WELL WHAT CAN
YOU DO ABOUT 'COLLATERAL DAMAGE' WE MUST STIMULATE GROWTH OF MONEY...
Mantra of the Insane Bush-Regime:
"WAR IS GOOD BUSINESS, WAR IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS, WAR STIMULATES THE
ECONOMY... OH YEAH LOTS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE DIE TOO... OH WELL WHAT CAN
YOU DO ABOUT 'COLLATERAL DAMAGE' WE MUST STIMULATE GROWTH OF MONEY...
Mantra of the Insane Bush-Regime:
"WAR IS GOOD BUSINESS, WAR IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS, WAR STIMULATES THE
ECONOMY... OH YEAH LOTS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE DIE TOO... OH WELL WHAT CAN
YOU DO ABOUT 'COLLATERAL DAMAGE' WE MUST STIMULATE GROWTH OF MONEY...
Mantra of the Insane Bush-Regime:
"WAR IS GOOD BUSINESS, WAR IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS, WAR STIMULATES THE
ECONOMY... OH YEAH LOTS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE DIE TOO... OH WELL WHAT CAN
YOU DO ABOUT 'COLLATERAL DAMAGE' WE MUST STIMULATE GROWTH OF MONEY...
Are you going to continue to follow the new Hitler?
It used to be that true Christians went willingly to die martyr's
deaths.
This world is a spec in eternity. Why not do your best to make this
world beautiful in the spirit of man... by being a man who stands up
against the liars who only believe in materialism, money, greed, oil...
etc. You will be considered worthless by many... but you will be one
of those who has kept the true people alive in spirit.
Drive around McClean, VA(the home of CIA world headquarters) and read
the road signs: "George Bush's CIA"
Nixon is spinning in his grave wondering when Bush will be impeached.
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is a merge of
State and Corporate power." ---Benito Mussolini, the father of modern
fascism.
"What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether
the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or
the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
--- Mahatma Gandhi
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news:1142110480.323273.182700@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year
An unbiased 'source' I see.
www.sfbayview.com/030806/usprison030806.shtml
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
You do understand that America has a much bigger population than
Britain, don't you?
Think of percentages rather than numbers.
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Well, according to my calculations, the robots
won't go berserk for at least 24 hours...
Oh, I forgot to, er, carry the one.
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