At yearend 2010, America's prison population topped 2.4 million,
including federal and state facilities, local jails, Indian, juvenile, and
military ones, U.S. territories, and numbers held by the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE).
In addition, over seven million more are under correctional
supervision, and over 13 million pass through U.S. prisons and jails annually.
About 70% are for nonviolent offenses. Veteranstoday.com
Most vulnerable are poor Blacks, Latinos, and Native Indians (people
of color) for America's insatiable prison-industrial complex appetite,
commoditizing human beings for profit in both public and privately run prisons.
Fogcityjournal.com Beginning in the 1980s, rapid prison population growth attracted
private investment. As a result, states began selling correctional facilities to
private operators, then contracting with them to warehouse prisoners.
Fogcityjournal.com Despite no evidence showing business operates better than government,
prisons for profit grew at a faster rate than incarceration over the past 15
years. As a result, companies like CCA and GEO Group have seen explosive growth,
benefitting greatly by
filling more beds. Thepeoplesvoice.org Currently the private prison industry is in a growth period at nearly
4 billion in current annual sales. Blue-point-trading.com With good government lobbying, they can convince government bodies to
give them their prisoners and get the incarceration rates up even higher - all
being potentially self funded through these prisoner work programs.
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America's population behind bars has gone up 1,000 percent in the
last three decades. Get-tough-on-crime legislation and minimum sentencing laws
are blamed for the explosion of inmates. Thereishopepm.com The U.S. incarcerates more people on a per capita basis than any
other country in the world - nearly two to three times more than our European
counterparts. Blue-point-trading.com Roughly one-third of U.S. prisoners were unemployed before
imprisonment. Another third had annual incomes of less than $5,000.
Blue-point-trading.com The number of female inmates is increasing almost twice as fast as
the men's incarceration rate, tripling in the last decade. At least 40 percent
of jailed women have minor children. Thereishopepm.com Rape and other sexual abuse are considered to be major problems
because of the power imbalance between inmates and guards, exacerbated when
they're poorly trained. Thepeoplesvoice.org
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