Prison Corporation cont.

I have written a few times before about the the Prison Institution int the US.  This is becoming one of the fastest growing industries in the US ( if not already).  In an article released by the Seattle Post Intelligencer released on May 21, 2006.

"Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.

The total on June 30, 2005, was 56,428 more than at the same time in 2004, the government reported Sunday. That 2.6 percent increase from mid-2004 to mid-2005 translates into a weekly rise of 1,085 inmates."

These are the kinds of actions that privatizing the Prison system has brought us.  In order for this industry to be lucrative and profitable we must have people to fill the prisons.  It is sad that we have lobbyist who sit on the Hill just trying to extend and increase prison sentences for the mere sake of making a profit.  Of all of the issues that we have this is by far the sickest.  Yet we the US want to pass judgment on the rest of the world for how they treat their citizens.  Hey PREZ i believe this to is in that book that you hold so dearly " Judge not lest ye be judged".

Now to bring this home I have to add the racial factor into this equation.  According to the same article. "  In the 25-29 age group, an estimated 11.9 percent of black men were in prison or jails, compared with 3.9 percent of Hispanic males and 1.7 percent of white males."

This is one of the most  disturbing issues facing black people in the US today. we still do not get it.  This is GENOCIDE by removing the men from the population the numbers will decrease by the second or third generation.  Black folk you need to wake up before there is no one left to wake up.

Have a nice day.