Medical Marijuana in the South?

The Corrupt Corporate Incarceration Complex | Truthout

read that.

and this...

The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?

It's basically like this. The more prisoners private prisons house, the more money they make. So what is the incentive to not jail everyone you can, anytime you can, regardless of what their crime is. And 60 or 70% of people incarcerated are in for non violent drug offenses. It's gonna hit home in Louisiana too, because I think Jindal is trying to privatize our prisons here too. Bad idea.

 

theres hundreds of private companies running prisons.

 

They could be replaced by "coffee houses", pot growers, and other distributors, transporters, etc. It would not have a net effect on jobs but it would have an easing effect on our prison and judicial systems.

 

my point was martin was talking about taxes being taken. not all prisons are funded by taxes.

on second thought, Im guessing even the private prisons are subsidized greatly from the taxpayer.

 

I think you are probably right.

 

well yeah, privately run or not it is still taxpayer money paying 100% of the cost. its not like prisons are some sort of money-generating entity, eh?

 

i think some are supposed to be but i suppose that was rhetoric.

 

what do you mean, like they make money stamping out license plates or digging ditches? i guess but i doubt prison labor is very lucrative.

 

Group 4 Falck Buys Wackenhut For $570 Million - Forbes.com

eh... think again, they make lots of money...

 

Prison Labor is lucrative for the prisons, and staffing agencies that use them as labor.