All posts tagged "prison industrial complex"
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Camps and Detainment
American Inmates Stage Nationwide Prison Labor Strike over ‘Modern Slavery’
August 21, 2018Prisoners in 17 states across the country started a two-week strike Tuesday, calling for an end to “modern slavery.” Prisoners...
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Controlling the Herd
These 5 Organizations Are the Reason Cannabis is Still a Crime
May 15, 2018So, if for years most people have agreed on legal cannabis, why does it remain a...
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Controlling the Herd
App That Crowdsources Bail Lets Anyone Help Disrupt America’s Mass Incarceration
January 15, 2018At face value, the system’s corruption and breadth appear too overwhelming to tackle head on, but...
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Controlling the Herd
A Tale of Two Americas: Where the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Go to Jail
January 5, 2018Sessions has given state courts the green light to resume their practice of jailing individuals who...
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Controlling the Herd
Private Prisons Prove Slavery Alive and Well in America
November 7, 2017Nothing like state-sanctioned, 25 cents an hour slave labor... Courtesy of the contractual quotas built into...
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Controlling the Herd
ATF Ran Illegal Sting Ops to Populate Prisons (Video)
September 15, 2017This is why I say we have slave labor camps within the United States that dwarfs...
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Controlling the Herd
The Over-Criminalization of American Life
June 23, 2017The proliferation of laws and administrative regulations, federal, state and local, that carry criminal penalties has...
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Controlling the Herd
You Don’t Need a Leader – Lead Yourself
January 23, 2017Time to break free of that tether which seems to have hold of most and it...
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Camps and Detainment
Have a Nice Life: Kid Runs away from Home Five Times, So Cop Tasers Him, Charges Him with Felony Resisting
June 18, 2015We should all just automatically comply with being violently kidnapped by people in costumes. That's the...
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Armageddon Scenarios
Disturbing INFOGRAPHIC: America’s Prison Population Numbers Keep Increasing
June 7, 2015We don’t just have the world’s largest prison population per capita, we blow every other country...
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Camps and Detainment
PA Residents Concerned after Hearing Screams from Nearby Prison
May 27, 2015So what are they yelling about? The conditions they live with in the prison. Namely, that...
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Camps and Detainment
Alabama Jail Releases Prisoners After Running Out of Money
May 18, 2015We don't know what crimes these inmates committed, but if it was so easy to release...
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Camps and Detainment
Ron Paul: The Drug War and the Prison-Industrial Complex
April 23, 2015Ron Paul discusses how drug warriors and the prison-industrial complex are working hand-in-hand to deliver big...
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Cops and Robbers
From Prisoner to Debt Slave: Inmates Becoming Corporate Slaves in For-Profit Facilities
January 19, 2015For-profit prisons have created a “neo-slavery” in the US, according to award-winning journalist Chris Hedges.
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Controlling the Herd
Man Serving Life in Prison for Pot Charge Won’t be Pardoned
January 12, 2015You can judge a nation by the types of people they decide throw in prison, and...
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Camps and Detainment
NYC Arrests Drop 56% for Second Week as Even the NYPD Union Admitted Many Arrests Aren’t “Absolutely Necessary”
January 6, 2015Forgive me if this is a stupid and overly obvious question, but shouldn't all arrests be...
