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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Jan 14, 2015
For-profit prisons have created a “neo-slavery” in the US, according to award-winning journalist Chris Hedges. Inmates work eight hours per day for major corporations such as Chevron, Motorola, Nordstrom’s and Target, yet only have the possibility of making up [to] $1.25 an hour. In addition, companies that provide services like phone calls overcharge prisoners on even the most basic services, making hundreds of millions in profits annually. RT’s Ben Swann speaks to Hedges, who explains how this shadowy system came into existence.
see also
Aerial Photos Expose the American Prison System’s Staggering Scale
see
Chris Hedges: How Prisons Ripoff and Exploit the Incarcerated, Part 1
Chris Hedges: How Prisons Rip Off and Exploit the Incarcerated, Part 2
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Such a completely unacceptable state of affairs. Prisoners should make at least the minimum wage if they are in fact employed by corporations. One wonders how much per man hour the private corrections companies are profiting, besides the slave labor profits gained by the corporations who’ve decided to participate in this enraging scheme. This information needs to become widely known so as to force actions which end such a despicable, completely unjust situation.
I agree with you, Jerry.
More people do need to learn about this.
Here’s a good article I posted in 2008; lots of statistics.
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/