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  • bradspangler, on 07/25/2008, -0/+11That's a big part of why you won't see any significant drug law reform (i.e. the only reasonable "reform" -- legalization) without an actual revolution. The prisons are full because of the drug war and those prisoners are basically enslaved to politically-favored big business.
  • MMMcripsyBACON, on 07/25/2008, -4/+0WHO CARES if they are put to work for little or no money. They don't pay rent, they don't pay for food, they don't pay for electricity, they don't pay for ANYTHING. Guess who does? YOU. They are funded by YOUR tax dollars. They might as well be doing something productive for the economy while they drain away your hard earned dollars!
    • dracostimpy, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Many of them would be doing something far more productive for the economy if they weren't locked up for simply lighting up a joint after a hard day's work.
  • AlwaysAwake, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Not content with kickbacks from the exorbitant profits realized by investors in businesses supplying construction, products and services within The Prison Industrial Complex, our public "dis-servants" take advantage of a bloated prison population in our nation, which is maintaining 25% of the worlds prisoners, with only 5% of the worlds people, to extract more money from corporations wanting a "pliable" workforce with the least exposure of liability and expense.
  • MsLaurel, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1Capitalism requires a pool of cheap, exploitable labor: Slavery was outlawed, so we got sweat-shops. Sweat-shops were done-away-with by the minimum wage, and people are beginning to notice that the minimum wage has deteriorated into a sweat-shop wage again. So now we have this --and outsourcing.
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