The prison system is legal slavery
SLAVERY IS STILL LEGAL.
Under the 13th amendment of the U.S. constitution slavery is legal in prison and slave labor is a large portion of the U.S. economy and the backbone of many corporations. Each part of the prison industrial complex is a profit-generating machine where the rich have incentive to incarcerate more people- this explains why the U.S. has the largest incarcerated population in the world and imprisons more of its minorities than any other country.
There's a name for the racist system that profits from mass incarceration in America.
It's called the PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
Prisons should not be used as a response to poverty. We need to reform and rehabilitate.
THE CONCEPT OF PRISONS FOR PROFIT IS WRONG BECAUSE IT CREATES A DEMAND FOR PRISONERS.
The United States of America is home to...
4% of the world's population
25% of the world's PRISON population
THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR ENTERPRISE.
WE CAN MAKE MORE MONEY OFF THE KID IN COMPTON IF HE'S A CRIMINAL INSTEAD OF A SCHOLAR.
IT'S BUSINESS.
-HENRY ROLLINS
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