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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Aug 28, 2016
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses the business of privately-run halfway houses with civil rights attorney Stanley Cohen. After 11-months in prison for a federal tax violation, Cohen spent three months in a New York halfway house operated by the GEO Group. He reflects on what he calls the “vile” conditions and profit-driven approach at such facilities. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the world of the for-profit halfway houses located in most major US cities.
From the archives:
Chris Hedges: The Prison-Industrial Complex
Chris Hedges: Wrongfully Convicted
Abby Martin: Tortured and Enslaved: Enter the World’s Biggest Prison
Chris Hedges: How Prisons Ripoff and Exploit the Incarcerated, Part 1
Chris Hedges: How Prisons Rip Off and Exploit the Incarcerated, Part 2
Chris Hedges: Prison State America: Corporations Use Inmates Like Slaves
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A deeply sinister business that goes way beyond ‘mind control.’
The corporate takeover of moral activity on our suffering planet is simply obscene. It’s as though the Enlightenment never happened ! Really dark forces are operating in America.
So now corporate criminals are reaping a grotesque bonanza from a hugely lucrative, global ‘correctional/psychiatric’ empire….US “freedom” is just the biggest scam on Earth, it has made a laughing-stock of Justice.
http://www.geogroup.com/history