America's Corporate Police State: 8 Unbelievable Things You Need To Know About America's Private Prison Industry - Video
Does privatizing the prison system sound good to you? Private prisons would be a for profit prison system. Corporations making a profit from American Citizens being incarcerated will be good incentive for more corruption in our already broken legal system. America you had better speak up, you are fast becoming a total police state. Check out the Video at the bottom of the page for an example of what our children’s future will be like with private prison systems in America. It will only get worse once corporations start turning even larger profits, you can be sure of that!
Crime is going down in America, but more Americans than ever are in prison—and more and more money is being spent and made, turning this country into a giant armed camp. Here are some key points about the private prison industry:
1. America’s system of detaining and monitoring “criminals” impacts more people than ever before. Including those who are either in some form of incarceration or in the parole and probation process, you’re looking at an affected population of….six million. One out of every 100 Americans is behind bars now. And every year, about 13 million Americans spend some time in jail for at least a brief spell.
2. State legislators faced with dwindling revenues are eager to offload inmates to “cheap” private facilities
3. The private prison industry grew 350 percent over the past fifteen years.
4. Two private companies – Corrections Corporation of America and The GEO Group– dominate the private prison industry. The biggest company, Corrections Corporation of America, is offering to buy prisons from states as long as they can promise an adequate supply of prisoners to make the deal worthwhile.
5. Studies show that private facilities perform badly compared to public ones on almost every metric—prevention of intra-prison violence, jail conditions, rehabilitation efforts—except reducing state budgets and adding to the corporate bottom line.
To keep their gravy train rolling, private prison companies need a few things from state and local government:
6) Lots of people arrested and convicted (often of essentially victimless crimes) and given long sentences. This most heavily impacts young black males—about one in nine of whom is in prison, many for using or selling marijuana, or, to a lesser degree, harder drugs. (Although whites have comparable drug use rates, their prosecution rates are dramatically lower.)
7) Opposition to the decriminalization of drug use, which would cut sharply into prison industry profits. (As a result, it ain’t going to happen.)
8) The continued criminalization and detention of undocumented foreigners.
With serious crime rates dropping, the US has fewer and fewer of the hardest-core (mostly male) criminals who were once prime targets for incarceration. To replace them, the private prison industry needs more young people, more women and (thanks to the immigration snatch game) more children as fodder for detention facilities.
The privatization of prisons is yet another instance of how small-government advocates are driving more and more of our lives into the hands of companies whose only objective is to turn a profit – without concern for larger social consequences. When public services like incarceration are handled as cheaply as possible, terrifying outcomes can result, including, in this case, unnecessary harm to minor offenders, the hardening of minor offenders into serious criminals, and calls for still more draconian law enforcement and punishment protocols, whose main justification is to keep those for-profit prisons filled.
How bad can it get? A private detention company in Pennsylvania bribed two judges to order youths imprisoned.
Some of the youths were jailed over the objections of their probation officers. An estimated 5,000 juveniles have been sentenced by Ciavarella since the scheme started in 2002. We speak to two youths sentenced by Ciavarella and to Bob Schwartz of the Juvenile Law Center. Source: http://www.99linkedin.com/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-americas-private-prison-industry/
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Should we eliminate all the COPs?
Absolutely without a doubt I vote yes. Here’s my reasoning behind my answer. And hopefully after reading this you will see why we as a people would be better off, more in control and much safer, without them.
First before I continue further let me preface this post by saying this. This is not a call to go out and eliminate COPs as gang bangers would; this is a call to eliminate COPs as legislators would, by writing them out of existence by way of the law.
The law is very powerful. It can free a people or it can enslave them. The pen truly is mightier than the sword. After all it is a pen that is used to sign orders, laws or treaties which either calls for the enslavement or the freedom of people. It is the tool which is used to form an agreement between two or more parties. And I say that we as a people need to enter into an agreement amongst ourselves to do that which is best for us, and eliminate all the COPs. The power must be returned to the people.
The law, in addition to being very powerful, is very specific so let’s first clearly define what a COP is because some people reading this might begin to panic and think that I want to do away with law enforcement, which is far from the truth, and the main reason why we want to clearly define the term COP. Because one thing is for certain, we need “law enforcement”; we just don’t need the COPs.
For those of you who do not know what a COP is, let me explain. COP is not a word; it is an acronym which stands for Corporate Owned Police. The city police department, the transit police department, the Postal police department, the Pacific Union Railroad police department, Monsanto police department and many more are all corporate owned police departments. They are not there to protect your rights, they are there to protect the rights and the interest of the corporations that pay them. And to abuse and extort money from those who live in or come inside their jurisdiction. Face it, there’s no money in catching thieves, rapist and murderers there’s only money in code violations. Also, calling a police officer a COP is an insult because they think of themselves as Law Enforcement Officers. That and they know what COP stands for; Corporate Owned Police. Or some like to say Corporate Owned Pig. I say if a COP is offended by being called a COP then he or she should go work for the Sheriffs department
Here in St. Louis County Missouri you can find at least a dozen or more corporate municipalities each having their own police department. Driving the main highways around the city of St. Louis there are COPS from a number of those municipalities who are out hustling for their share of extortion money to be taken from those who travel through the various jurisdictions of those municipalities. Although what really gets me is seeing the Pacific Union Railroad police, a privately owned police department, speeding down the highway doing 85 MPH as if they own the public roads. One thing is for certain, the corruption and the abuses against the people and their rights have got to stop and the corporate thugs have got to go.
For those who are worried about having a lawless society after all of the COPs are eliminated, don’t worry. Solving the problem of having law enforcement to ensure law and order without COPs is easy; we simply do what we did before they existed…. We relied on our elected official the Sheriff and his deputies to uphold the law. And if a job required more deputies than what the Sheriff currently had then he would simply deputize a few citizens to reach the number of men required. How many of you law abiding citizens would volunteer your time at the Sheriffs department to ensure that everyone followed the law, including Law Enforcement Officers?
I would suspect that police brutality and a whole line of abuses would come to a halt if the power over the Law Enforcement Officers resided in the hands of the people as a whole instead of being in the hands of a few that hide behind a vale of protection provided by a legal document known as the Articles of Incorporation. It would be that much easier for the people to actually seek and receive justice if they were back in control of their own police force. You see if a Sheriff does not do his job, is found guilty of a crime or does not arrest one of his deputies for committing a crime then a new Sheriff can be elected once the old one is dragged out by the scruff of his neck, prosecuted in a court of law and sentenced to whatever punishment fits the crime.
Right now the people need the protections provided by the law and Law Enforcement Officers more than ever before. Why do I say that? Because our Law Enforcement Officers are supposed to be defending the Constitutional Rights of the people from those who wish to violate them. And if you haven’t noticed lately, a lot of people are having their rights violated by corporations and corporate thugs AKA COPs more so than they are by their neighbor. COPs, and not all of them, have become nothing more than psychotic criminals on steroids with badges.
What the people need to do is take back their power and put an end to the corporate corruption within our country. How do you do this? Vote in a Sheriff who has the courage to stand up against the corporate thugs by deputizing as many men as it takes to seize control of the assets held by corporate owned police departments within their county. Once the assets have been seized, including the money, they can be used by the Sheriffs department to further ensure law and order in the county. Basically it would be a hostile takeover of the assets owned by the corporation. And I’m sure you are all familiar with the procedures as the corporations use them to evict people from their homes when a bank forecloses on a property.
So how many of you law abiding citizens would still volunteer at the Sheriffs department if they were planning on taking over the corporate owned police department, seizing its assets and arresting its personnel? Everyone does realize that the Sheriff DOES have the power to do just that, right?
Does everyone realize that the state of Delaware is trying to take away the powers of the Sheriff? They are trying to eliminate the power of the people by taking away their protection. COPs work for corrupt corporations whose main purpose is to cheat you out of your wealth, the Sheriffs job is to protect your wealth and your rights because that is what he was elected to do. So now you can see why the corporations want to outlaw the Sheriff when in fact it is the COPs which need to be outlawed.
Does everyone realize that the people, meaning you, do not have the right to police protection? This is a ruling handed down by the Supreme Court. Why did they rule that way? Because the COPs do not work for you they work for the corporations.
Does everyone see the urgency regarding this matter and how it relates to your freedoms and liberties? I surely hope so because if not we can kiss the United States of America goodbye and start saying hello to the United Socialist States of America.
Who is it that you elected to protect your rights and freedoms?