To Be Read While Blasting ‘Prison Song’ By System Of A Down | Michael Kindt
A recent presentation by Corrections Corp of America touted the
coming growth of the private prison business. It was geared toward
potential investors and had a very bullish outlook on locking people up
for profit, which is a good thing for the economy–and since we all want
the economy to be good, yay, locking people up for profit!
The
presentation, in glowing tones, spoke mainly about how the private
prison business is such a unique investment opportunity. You would think
that this uniqueness stems from the fact that it’s, you know, locking
people up in cages for money, but you’d be wrong. It’s unique because of
almost certain growth. What industry, short of recreational drugs, can
boast of almost certain growth? The U.S. has the largest number of
people behind bars in the world, the presentation pointed out, so the
foundation has already been laid. We even have more people locked up
than China–and China is a “police state” with four times our population.
Funny how that works. One out of every hundred Americans is behind
bars, at best a fifth of them deservedly so.
Michael Kindt lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He has determined to die there. Soon, probably.
Article I wrote for CLASH Media…
