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RussiaToday on Dec 9, 2012
US breeds a Chinese-style inmate labor scheme on its own soil. Both state and some of the biggest private companies are now enjoying the fruits of a cheap and readily available work force, with tens of millions of dollars spent by private prisons to keep their jails full.
from the archives:
Why Mass Incarceration Defines Us As a Society by Chris Hedges
Michael Parenti: Justice For Sale
An Empire of Poverty: Race, Punishment, and Social Control by Andrew Gavin Marshall
The crime of privatized prisons by Lamont Lilly
Prisons for Profit By Timothy V. Gatto
The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?
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