how is it that we, mainly Africans and Razas, represent over 70% of prisoners caged up, yet we only make up 25% of the total u.s. population? the u.s. government claims that prisons are used to "solve" our "social problems", but in reality, it is masking an infrastructure that is committed to slavery and genocide. build them and fill them. there is a hidden agenda or maybe not so hidden, to socially control, disenfranchise and capitalize on [next to] free labor of our people. locking up our people will not eliminate the social problems that we have in the u.s., it will eliminate human beings, in particular, those who are from racially and economically marginalized communities.
some of the corporations that are benifitting from the prison industrial complex are Motorola, IBM, Chevron, Starbucks, Victoria's Secret...the list goes on.
check these sites to learn more about abolishing this big business industry and where investments should go...
http://www.calipmp.org/
http://ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=2
http://www.criticalresistance.org/
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