27 Dec 2011

Occupy Prisons!? The Other 1%

Correction Corporation of America's Stewart facility in Lumpkin, Georgia is the largest private detention center in the nation. Stewart currently profits close to $50 million a year. CCA charges inmates close to $5 a minute to make a phone call. To pay for this inmates work in the facility and earn a whopping $1 a day. 5 days of work gives them enough for a one minute phone call. Source

Angelo: Land of the incarcerated, home of the detention centre. UK is going that way too. Our best prepared, best educated have nothing better to propose than a system that I very much hope is seen for the Bedlam of our time that it is. The vast resources flushed which could surely be put to better use. Any suggested structures that take longer than two sides of  A4 to explain should be dismissed out of hand as bogus. They are the other 1%. As they are not insane, they are clearly the most disadvantaged in other ways or even more and more, just victims of the system itself that is often out of step with its society. Those who administer the system are rarely the peers of those being judged. Our answer in the fly to mars west remains put them in a steel cage until they rot and treat them as shown above. I get it when it comes to 'rehabilitating' the violent for the sake of safety. There must be something more effective for the non violent majority.