CORPORATE PRISONS

How do corporate prisons profit from incarceration over the public prison’s system? Through cost cutting that jeopardizes the safety of guards, communities, and the prisoners themselves. Corporate prisons attempt to save money by cutting back on staffing, security, and medical care, all of which contributes to the difficulty in acquiring and maintaining competent staff members. As a result, statistics indicate that the number of escapes from corporate prisons are astronomical compared to public sector prisons. When escape occurs, not only has our security been compromised, but taxpayer public financed police departments are used to recapture their escapees, while the corporations continue to make profit dollars at our expense.

The first concern to the corporate prison CEOs about criminals escaping from their facilities is that, "it hurts their corporate stock price.”

Indeed, it is both unethical and counterproductive to turn incarceration over to the private sector for profit. A prison system that creates profit dollars for shareholders and does not rehabilitate prisoners is a failed system.

Using the dungeons for dollars and profit for punishment prison system is a bad investment for our tax dollars. Research indicates that governments save little or no money by contracting out their prison business.

The term “prison industrial complex” increasingly refers to the close relationship between private corporations profiting from private prisons and prison labor used in manufacturing. As if the New World Order controlled Washington puppet politicians are not making the lives of us laboring class people difficult enough by shipping most of this nation’s good manufacturing jobs to foreign shores, now they are providing their big money New World Order corporate masters with near slave labor inmate employees in the US also.

According to a 1998 Correction Industry report, there were about 72,000 prisoners nationwide employed in inmate work programs; many of whom work for private subcontractors who use the low-cost, near slave labor to manufacture everything from aircraft components to lingerie and software packages, as well as putting “made in the USA” labels on foreign-made products.

California gives a 10% tax break for operating behind bars. These tax-breaks go to operators that pay no overtime, no worker’s compensation, no vacation, no sick leave to their employees, and no threat of democratic unions to challenge all those wrongs on behalf of the workers. After all how can virtual slaves organize. Given such competitive advantages, it is easy to understand why the private-prison- industrial-complex has become a booming business, and all at the expense of us laboring class people, as always.

Your campaign contribution to Vic Roberts for Senator is an investment toward a strong voice in the U. S. Senate opposing private prisons, and the use of prison labor in corporate commercial manufacturing. Your contribution is an investment toward political leadership for the common good of our citizens, and the general welfare of our great nation; representation for the demise of the New World Order’s evil empire.

In the words of a great lady, Mother Jones, "Let us pray for the dead but fight like hell for the living.”

Vic Roberts IL (2004) US Senate candidate

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