Robert Reich: End mass incarceration

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[SunSeeker]

1. This corporate welfare for the prison industry is the new Jim Crow.

And the cause of incalculable misery.

[appalachiablue]

3. Yep, but it's a lucrative source of revenue for the corps who manage and the contractors

who service them. Prisoners are worked for nothing, maybe $1.50 a day (after costs?), the sentences are very long due to harsher laws since the 90s, and most arrive there after taking a plea since if they use a court lawyer and lose there's a much more severe sentence.
It's a disgrace, and Jim Crow redux, and "Slavery By Another Name" that journalist Douglas Blackmon wrote of in his 2008 book of that name. Michele Alexander's work too. Journalist Chris Hedges teaches in prisons in NJ and in a video of a recent lecture about his new book, "Wages of Rebellion" he discussed at lot about the conditions and attitudes of his students, very interesting.

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2. Happy to be the 5th Rec...