I found an article dealing with prison statistics in California.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/31/RVGNGN44B71.DTL
Just hearing the numbers and percentages of the people in jail makes me very upset. With the population of the United States being about 20% African-American and a slightly smaller percentage for Latinos. However, two thirds of the people in these jails are of the two minorities. This article goes as far as saying that this is a type of slavery.
The right claims that prisons reduce crime, but California’s crime rate was decreasing before the prison boom took off. The left argues that prisons are the “new slavery,” designed to provide cheap labor to mercenary corporations…
Unfortunately, I am aware of the racism that still takes place in our country today and throughout the world. However, I am simply outraged that people will be this up front about it, and we will potentially enable terrible history to repeat itself.
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1 Wasserman // Jan 7, 2007 at 7:22 pm
“Unfortunately” because you’re aware, or because it exists? The answer is interesting either way…think on that…
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