THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOM

In 1960 the incarceration rate in the United States was 153 per 100,000. Today it is 716 per 100,000. After 50 years of the War on Poverty, this is what we’ve accomplished. You might be interested to know the incarceration rate of black males is 4,347 per 100,000.

More than 2.4 million people are behind bars in the United States today, either awaiting trial or serving a sentence. That’s more than the combined population of 15 states, all but three U.S. cities, and the U.S. armed forces. They’re scattered throughout a constellation of 102 federal prisons, 1,719 state prisons, 2,259 juvenile facilities, 3,283 local jails, and many more military, immigration, territorial, and Indian Country facilities.

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Joseph E Fasciani

In 1986-1988, at Twin Rivers maximum security prison, Monroe Command, near Redmond, Washington, the home of Microsoft, a new building was added. Overall, the architecture of the prison complex is identical to the contemporary style of new colleges in the same state, except of course for the towering razor-wire topped fences, sodium vapour lamps floodlighting the place at night, and the steel-grated windows.

AT the time all prisoners had to either work in a prison industry or be enrolled in educational studies of some sort; this was known as ‘programming’ in prison terminology. The rate of pay was US$ .24/hr, at a time when a domestic postage stamp was .28 cents.

However, for a lucky few, perhaps thirty-five, they could work in the only private industry allowed in the prison: Microsoft had a CD packaging & assembly line that paid .84 cents to start, maybe a $1.25 after one was proficient.

I’m trying to recall more than twenty years ago, but I believe these figures are pretty accurate, or very close to what they were. So that’s one way to reduce the cost of doing business under free enterprise entrepreneurial capitalism.

According to the online Collins English Dictionary, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/entrepreneurial, an entrepreneur is “a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.”

So that’s Bill Gates’ business acumen: use prison labour to best the competition. Of course, the competition may also be lucky enough to get aboard a state or federal prisoner work prgram: that’s free enterprise for ya!

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

While I am appalled by incarceration rates overall in the U.S. and disgusted by the police state mentality growing like some horrible brain fungus, the statistics for black male imprisonment look about right to me. Perhaps they should be a bit higher if law enforcement would ever get its act together. This is the result whenever large numbers of black Africans (or their descendants) are forced into close proximity with white populations. We need to separate for the good of both races.

overthecliff

What is the point of this information?

Billy
Billy

Admin,

Yes, yes, and yes.

Sensetti
Sensetti

I wonder what percentage of black children were from fatherless homes in 1960? It’s about 70% today. Ya don’t suppose there’s a correlation there do ya?

bb

Admin.,yes ,yes and yes.

Wyoming Mike
Wyoming Mike

I am appalled. We need to arrest a shitload more women. Reeks of sexism!

spinolator
spinolator

Somebody’s making money…and a nice pension.

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