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There Are Now More Americans In Jail Than There Were In Stalin's Gulag Archipelago

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Josef Stalin, he would have been proud. 

 

There are now more Americans in jail — 6 million — than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called “Incarceration Nation.” And it’s not just a relative population thing, The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens.
 
How does that compare to other countries?
 
It’s 7X-10X as high:
 
Japan has 63 per 100,000,
Germany has 90 per 100,000
France has 96 per 100,000
South Korea has 97 per 100,000
­Britain has 153 per 100,000
And it’s also a relatively new phenomenon: In 1980, the U.S. only had 150 prisoners per 100,000 citizens.
 
What’s to blame?
 
FASCISM IS TO BLAME!  -Mort



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    • Chris Jacob

      No. They are really very smart. This is another way to make slaves and pay them a penny. American corporations are using prisoners to build their products. Almost 60% of microphone is made by prisoners in America for 1 dolllar a day. All data entry jobs are being given to prisoners in America for pennies so that corporations can mint billions. Now they don’t even have to pay min wage.

      This is a new scam people. Wake Up. They are putting Americans in prison to work for the corporations for pennies.

      Americans MUST READ THIS MUST

      http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/private-prisons-the-more-americans-they-put-behind-bars-the-more-money-they-make

      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 generation 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.

    • fuzzy696

      Minor drug charges make up the majority of these offences so much for tax payers dollars.

    • Anonymous

      We lock people up because they committed crimes and they’re dangerous. Do you want all the murderers and rapists back on the streets???

      • ashley robinson

        more people are in prisons for marijuana than all violent crimes combined. wake up!!

    • Anonymous

      Let out the pot heads and incarcerate the violent offenders, Their are way to many violent criminals on the streets of the USA.

      • ☜(☼_☼)☞

        And in congress.

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