Cashing in on Cons

[Robert Oak]

Undercover at the American Correctional Association’s 2005 Winter Conference:

Keeping litigation costs down is only one way prison corporations profit from incarceration. In addition, for-profit prisons also increase revenues by contracting with other corporations to provide substandard or overpriced services to prisoners. In some states, companies like Microsoft pay prisons to employ prisoners at wages far below market rates.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1924/

[Ezlivin]

1. Our sweatshops operate openly with the public's full cooperation

Taking advantage of the unprecedented prison boom of the late ’80s and ’90s, prison administrators, politicians, lobbying firms and corporate boards created a prison-industrial complex in which everyone benefits except the prisoners.

The growth in the non-violent prison population is a direct result of draconian drug laws passed in the '80s.

[Sporadicus]

2. Another Facet of Cheap-Labor Conservatives' Agenda

Draconian drug laws - with mandatory sentences - ensure that the prison industries have sufficient near-slaves to produce goods & services as cheaply as possible.

[TahitiNut]

5. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Former convicts can be employed for less as well ... and the cost of their room and board isn't a factor.

[ima_sinnic]

6. plus they are removed from the pool of voters, permanently

in many places.
the fewer participants in democracy, the better for these vermin.

[Al-CIAda]

3. Clinton's hands are just as dirty

He also has prison stocks (wakinhut) if I am not mistaken.

[w4rma]

4. So? He's a DLCer. (nt)