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[alexmark1917]

It’s no surprise that we lead the world in incarcerations when you see that the whole process has been monetized and profitable.

States of Incarceration: The Global Context

http://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/

Here Are All Of The Nations That Incarcerate More Of Their Population Than The U.S.

Yeah, we’re actually number one and that’s not a good thing.

No country incarcerates a higher percentage of its population than the United States. At 716 per 100,000 people in 2013, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies, the U.S. tops every other nation in the world.

Among OECD countries, the competition isn’t even close — Israel comes in second, at 223 per 100,000.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/13/incarceration-rate-per-capita_n_3745291.html

Kids for cash scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

This Is How Private Prison Companies Make Millions Even When Crime Rates Fall

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime

The FCC Looks into the Prison Telephone Racket

On November 21, the Federal Communications Commission published 28 pages of fine print that could overhaul the way prisons operate their calling plans. Until last year, prison phone systems — known within the industry as “inmate calling services,” or ICS — were “a dark little backwater of telecommunication that the FCC was not paying attention to,” says Peter Wagner of Prison Policy Initiative, an advocacy group.

With no regulation, telecom contractors in prisons and jails could charge whatever they wanted for a phone call and tack on fees without limit. In some states, a 15-minute phone call costs as much as $17. Inmates and their families spend $1.2 billion a year on phone calls.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/04/the-fcc-looks-into-the-prison-telephone-racket

The two biggest private prison organizations in the US have clauses in their contracts that require the prisons to stay at least 90% full at all times.

American universities do a fine job of selling themselves as pathways to opportunity and knowledge. But follow the traffic of money and policies through these academic institutions and you’ll often wind up at the barbed wire gates of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, the two largest private prison operators in the United States. In the last two decades the private prison industry has exploded, growing 784 percent at the federal level, and helping the United States to achieve the highest incarceration rate in the world. CCA operates 69 facilities throughout the United States, GEO operates 55; both typically mandate that 90 percent of their beds be filled at all times. In the last two years alone CCA has defended itself against charges of fraudulent understaffing of its facilities, medical neglect and abuse of inmates.

A series of policies, appointments and investments knit America’s universities into the widening net of the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex. Institutions of higher education have now become a part of what sociologist Victor Rios has called the “youth control complex”—a tightly bundled network of institutions that work insidiously and in harmony to criminalize young people of color. Here are five ways that universities buy into private prison companies.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/5-links-between-higher-education-and-the-prison-industry-20140618#ixzz3cq5Xd9yi

[P-Marlowe]

When they enact Shariah law in the U.S., then we can just lop off heads and hands rather than sending people to prison, Then we can reduce the prison population and the general population at the same time.

[Paulie]

Several publications report that prisons are breeding grounds for Islamic recruitment.

I’m sure the big girls and boys know this. Is that an additional reason the jails are kept full? Once they get out, homegrown jihadists can move freely anywhere within the lower 48, as opposed tot their foreign brethren who cross the Rio Grande.

[DBrow]

” then we can just lop off heads and hands rather than sending people to prison”

That was what I was thinking. What about laces that amputate limbs or digits and let you go? What is the capital punishment rate in Saudi, Cuba, Myanamar, and how many “unofficial” executions are there in third world countries that don’t get tallied?

And in some places they sell you into slavery instead of sending you to jail.

USA has a lower murder rate than 110 other countries, maybe jail helps reduce that?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

When they enact Shariah law in the U.S., then we can just lop off heads and hands rather than sending people to prison, Then we can reduce the prison population and the general population at the same time.

The shooting will have started before that happens. One would hope. At the least, afterward.

[Excellence]

The title seems to have no bearing on the article.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Am I missing something?
What does the title have to do with this disjointed article?

[alexmark1917]

It’s no surprise that we lead the world in incarcerations when you see that the whole process has been monetized and profitable.