Prison Industrial Complex

By Terence T. Gorski

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Crowded Jails Create Crisis For Prisons in Alabama (5-30-01)

These two stories from the New York Times graphically depict the problems with jail and prison overcrowding in Alabama. Similar problems are occurring across the nation. The main cause of the rapid growing jail and prison populations are non-violent drug offenders arrested for personal possessions and use of illegal drugs and sentenced to prison sentences averaging seven to fifteen years. Less than 12% receive treatment for their addiction.

Marketing To Prisoners Behind The Bars

The growing inmate population is a lucrative market for many specialized products. There's something wrong in America when we have so many people behind the bars that prisoners become a lucrative commercial market. Don't forget that 25% of the approximately 2 million incarcerated people are nonviolent drug addicts who are doing time for the possession and personal use of illegal drugs. Recovering drug addicts make great employees. It's a shame most can't find jobs when they get out because industries are teaming up with departments of correction to take the jobs out of the community and install them behind the bars using cheaper inmate labor.