Important insight on the PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX and how the legal problems of po'folk are often monetized in a system which now confront pushback from politicos. Take a look:
Messenger: Lawmaker targets probation-for-profit companies in Missouri
Jerry Swartz knows a thing or two about making money. The Moberly, Mo., man owns an insurance agency, a real estate development company and other businesses. He has more than 30 employees. He's done well for himself. So when he describes the revenue strategy of private probation companies in Missouri, his words carry a certain gravitas.
Mad respect to the st Louis post for these stories. A week or ten days ago there was an unbelievable story about basically a debtors prison for the benefit of a privately owned probation company being run out of the Dent County circuit Court.
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Simple solution: Eliminate parole altogether and make the fuckers serve their entire sentence a la Federal time.
ReplyDeleteBefore some idiot mentions overcrowding: Fuck that, overcrowding a condition created by the prisoners themselves, not the system. Who gives a fuck if we cram them 20 to a cell, don't like it don't break the law.