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Five Stunning Facts About America's Prison System You Haven't Heard

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Submitted by Sean Kerrigan via SeanKerrigan.com,

We’ve done several exposés on the prison system in America, including The Prison System Runs Amok, Expands at Frightening Pace (Sept 6, 2012) and Selling the American Dream is the Biggest Market of All (Sept. 30, 2013), but there’s still much more to be said about this topic. America’s massive prison system is creating a long list of unintended consequences, some of which will effect all of us in the coming years. To help explain just how bad things have gotten, we’ve compiled this list of the most stunning facts and statistics on the America’s prison system today. 

1) Because of its prison system, the US is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women.

According to the 2011 report from Department of Justice, nearly one in 10 prisoners report having been raped or sexually assaulted by other inmates, staff or both. According to a revised report from the US Department of Justice, there were 216,000 victims of rape in US prisons in 2008. That is roughly 600 a day or 25 every hour.

Those numbers are of victims, not instances, which would be much higher since many victims were reportedly assaulted multiple times throughout the year. Excluding prison rapes, there about 200,000 rapes per year in America, and roughly 91 percent of those victims are women. If these numbers are accurate, this means that America is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women.

Even if the number of unreported rapes outside of prison were substantially larger than most experts believe, the fact that many victims in prison tend to be raped repeatedly would indicate that rape against men is at least comparable to rape against women.

Kendell Spruce was one such inmate, sentenced to six years for forging a check for which he hoped to purchase crack cocaine. In a National Prison Rape Elimination Commission testimony, Spruce said:

“I was raped by at least 27 different inmates over a nine month period. I don’t have to tell you that it was the worst nine months of my life… [I] was sent into protective custody. But I wasn’t safe there either. They put all kinds of people in protective custody, including sexual predators. I was put in a cell with a rapist who had full-blown AIDS. Within two days, he forced me to give him oral sex and anally raped me.”

Spruce was diagnosed with “full blown AIDS” in 2002 and died three years later.

2) There are more black slaves in America today than in 1850.

This sounds outrageous. How can there be more slaves in America today than before the Civil War? First, consider there are more black men in prison today than there were slaves in 1850, according to Michelle Alexander, an Ohio State law professor, who cited the last census immediately before the Civil War. This comparison not account for changes in population, but the statistic is accurate in terms of sheer numbers .

Next, consider the 13th Amendment to the constitution which reads:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Note there is an exception to the otherwise total abolition of slavery. Those suffering “punishment for a crime” can still be constitutionally enslaved. In other words, everyone convicted of a crime is at least potentially a slave.  The Supreme Court has not ruled on whether or not they technically are slaves, but practically it is obvious they are.

Slavery has different definitions, but almost all include the following characteristics: 1) A slave is forced to work under threat of physical or psychological threat. 2) A slave is considered owned property, an asset or commodity which can be sold. Finally, a slave has restrictions on their liberties, including freedom of movement. Right or wrong, a US prison inmate easily meets this criteria.

Prisoners can be denied communication with their fellow inmates, or forbidden from voluntary associations including union membership. Obviously, they are denied their freedom to leave the prison, but they are also forced to work unpaid or for extremely low wages. Prisoners are effectively being bought and sold to private corporations who are using them as cheep labor for private gains. There is also a market for younger and healthier prisoners because their healthcare cost make them less expensive to hold. Private prison contracts allow the transfer of prisoners to state run institutions.

If this is not slavery, then what is?

3) Solitary confinement, widely used in American prisons, is regarded internationally as torture.

This form of punishment has become increasingly common in the US since it was introduced as a part of America’s then new “Supermax” prison system which began growing in the mid-1980s. Prisoners held in solitary confinement are typically kept in a small, windowless cell for 23 hours a day, with minimal access to lawyers, family and guards. The number of prisoners currently in solitary is estimated to be around 80,000, though the number is growing faster than the overall prison population, indicating the method is becoming increasingly normalized.

Solitary confinement is used against a variety of offenders, including those picked up for immigration violations, which is a misdemeanor or the legal equivalent of a reckless driving ticket. Others are placed in solitary confinement “for their own protection” since they may be a target of other violent inmates. There are few regulations prohibiting its use or duration.

The Sun Times reports that Former US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who is currently serving a prisons sentence for breaking campaign finance laws, was removed from the general prison population and placed in solitary confinement for 5 days after “advising other inmates in North Carolina about their rights in prison, according to the source, who said a guard took exception to that.”

Human rights groups have called the practice torture. The Center for Constitutional Rights argues:

“Researchers have demonstrated that prolonged solitary confinement causes a persistent and heightened state of anxiety and nervousness, headaches, insomnia, lethargy or chronic tiredness, nightmares, heart palpitations, and fear of impending nervous breakdowns. Other documented effects include obsessive ruminations, confused thought processes, an oversensitivity to stimuli, irrational anger, social withdrawal, hallucinations, violent fantasies, emotional flatness, mood swings, chronic depression, feelings of overall deterioration, as well as suicidal ideation.”

This was known as far back as the 1890s, when the Supreme Court originally ruled on the practice. They noted then:

“A considerable number of the prisoners fell, after even a short confinement, into a semi-fatuous condition, from which it was next to impossible to arouse them, and others became violently insane; others still committed suicide, while those who stood the ordeal better were not generally reformed, and in most cases did not recover sufficient mental activity to be of any subsequent service to the community.”

Despite this admission, the practice itself wasn’t ruled on and the method is still used today.

4) The food served in prisons is often stale, moldy, under-cooked, unhealthy and scarce.

In the 1940s, prison food used to be good, offering a wide variety of options. Today, they call it “shit on a shingle.” The reality is not much worse. State budget cuts and the trend to privatize prisons and prison services has substantially cut food variety and quality.

Incentives to cut costs exist at the institutional and individual level. In Alabama, state law allows law enforcement to pocket leftover funds after feeding prisoners provided they can still provide for their basic needs. The incentive to cut on quality and quantity resulted in the arrest and sentencing of Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett who kept over $200,000 in funds intended for prisoners. The judge concluded that Bartlett had failed to provide “a nutritionally adequate diet.”

In April 2008, 277 prisoners at Florida’s Santa Rosa Correctional Institution became sick after eating chili. The Tampa Bay Times repoted the Philadelphia based food provider, Aramark, “landed the state contract in 2001 and is currently paid $2.67 per inmate for three meals a day. It serves about 60,000 inmates across Florida and contends it has saved the state $100-million in food costs.” The chili story is not an anomaly; it has been repeated across the country including New Jersey, where Aramark also provides meals.

This video shows some of what prisoners in Alabama are forced to eat — rotten and  uncooked meat. It’s difficult to hear, but skip to 0:59 to get a good view of what the meat looks like.

Even when the food isn’t rotten, that doesn’t mean it is particularly appetizing. Occasionally, the food tastes so bad that it has been considered “unconstitutional” in some states. States like Illinois and Pennsylvania feed inmates a food called “Nutraloaf,” a mix of raw vegetables shaped like a meatloaf.  In this video, the staff of the Glens Fall Post Star newspaper taste test the block of food. They conclude, “One bite is one thing, but if you have to live on that, that is awful.”

Sickness and hunger are a common and increasingly accepted part of being a prisoner in America. In addition to stale and rotten food, servings are often extremely small. Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges quotes a prison inmate who said, “You could eat six portions like the ones we served and still be hungry. If we put more than the required portion on the tray the Aramark people would make us take it off. It wasn’t civilized. I lost 30 pounds. I would wake up at night and put toothpaste in my mouth to get rid of the hunger urge.” Read the rest of Truthdig’s expose for more.

5) Many prisoners are forced to work real jobs for private corporations, forcing down wages in the rest of the economy.

While cheap sweatshop labor is becoming increasingly common across the country, no one takes better advantage of the system than prisons.

Alternet reports that almost 1 million prisoners are doing simple unskilled labor including “making office furniture, working in call centers, fabricating body armor, taking hotel reservations, working in slaughterhouses, or manufacturing textiles, shoes, and clothing, while getting paid somewhere between 93 cents and $4.73 per day.” They continue:

“Rarely can you find workers so pliable, easy to control, stripped of political rights, and subject to martial discipline at the first sign of recalcitrance — unless, that is, you traveled back to the nineteenth century when convict labor was commonplace nationwide….  It was one vital way the United States became a modern industrial capitalist economy — at a moment, eerily like our own, when the mechanisms of capital accumulation were in crisis.”

Compare the cost of less than $5 a day with the cost of a minimum wage worker at $58 a day and you begin to see the perverse influence on the entire labor market.

CNN Money reports that prison inmates are now directly competing for jobs in the rest of the economy, and employers are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up. Lost jobs are the result. They cite one company, American Apparel Inc., which makes military uniforms. They write:

“‘We pay employees $9 on average,’ [a company executive] said. ‘They get full medical insurance, 401(k) plans and paid vacation. Yet we’re competing against a federal program that doesn’t pay any of that.’

[The private prison] is not required to pay its workers minimum wage and instead pays inmates 23 cents to $1.15 an hour. It doesn’t have health insurance costs. It also doesn’t shell out federal, state or local taxes.”

The new influx of cheap, domestic labor will inevitably drive down wages for both skilled and unskilled jobs.

 

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Tue, 04/29/2014 - 22:07 | 4710501 Overfed
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The Jesuits didn't kill Lincoln. JW Booth just happened to show up 4 years too late to do any good.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 22:28 | 4710585 nmewn
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Thats a fact. And Booth was an Episcopalian.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 22:38 | 4710634 acetinker
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I kinda liked Uncle Milty, but you answered your own question... with your own question.  Booth wasn't a jesuit, his mother was episcopalian and his father was disinterested (like me).

Your argument is thin.  Where did it come from?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 00:48 | 4710839 Radical Marijuana
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Well, regarding what MiltonFriedmans asked, maybe the answer was that Lincoln was Not enough of a traitor?

President Abraham Lincoln was between a rock and a hard place:

"I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me, and the financial institutions in the rear. Of the two, the one in my rear is my greatest foe."

~ Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the US, November 1864.

It is always to facile for people who were not living in particular times to judge the events from the perspective of their times, rather than attempt to judge events from the perspective of being within those times, that those events transpired.

While I agree with the view expressed by acetinker that the civil war subverted what America was idealized to be, (in an extremely horrible way, since one could say that the American Civil War was the first "modern war,") Lincoln was nevertheless stuck between greater evils. The one that actually killed him appears to have been his worst enemy, which he described as:

"The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes."

THAT IS JUST A TASTE OF SOME OF THE BACKGROUND NECESSARY TO APPRECIATE THE ASSERTIONS IN MY ORIGINAL COMMENT ABOVE, THAT THE BIGGEST GANGSTERS ARE THE BANKSTERS, AND THEY HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT THROUGH APPLYING THE METHODS OF ORGANIZED CRIME.

I repeat a few historical facts, and some of my favourite quotes:

Abraham Lincoln created about $500 million of "greenbacks" to use to fight the Civil War. It was as interesting how Lincoln came up with that idea, as how President Andrew Jackson had been thinking about that a few decades previously

I believe that Lincoln said this: "The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of the government but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity. By adoption of the these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity."

However, in fact, the bankers gradually and persistently won by stealth, propaganda, and misrepresentation concerning the nature of money and banking. In 1863, Congress under President Abraham Lincoln had broken free and again issued its own paper notes, which were used to finance the North’s victory in the Civil War. But after the war was over, the ‘Greenbacks’ were withdrawn and bankers paper notes were substituted. In 1913, the exclusive right to issue the nation’s currency was usurped by a private central bank called the ‘Federal Reserve’, although it is not federal and keeps no gold reserves. Today, almost all American "money" is ’fiat’ money (money ‘by decree’), issued by private banks as credit either to the government or to individuals and corporations.

1865: On April 14th, 41 days after his second inauguration, and just 5 days after General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox, President Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth, at Ford's Theater. He would later die of his injuries. Subsequent allegations that international bankers were responsible for President Lincoln's assassination, would be made in the Canadian House of Commons, nearly 70 years later in 1934. The person who revealed this was a Canadian Attorney, Gerald G. McGeer. He had obtained evidence deleted from the public record provided to him by Secret Service Agents at the trial of John Wilkes Booth, after Booth's death. McGeer stated that it showed that John Wilkes Booth was a mercenary working for the international bankers. His speech would be reported in an article in the Vancouver Sun, dated, 2nd May 1934, which stated, "Abraham Lincoln, the murdered emancipator of the slaves, was assassinated through the machinations of a group representative of the International Bankers, who feared the United States President's National Credit ambitions. There was only one group in the world at that time who had any reason to desire the death of Lincoln. They were the men opposed to his national currency program and who had fought him throughout the whole Civil War on his policy of Greenback currency." Gerald G. McGeer also stated that Lincoln's assassination was not purely because the International Bankers wanted to re-establish a central bank in America, but also because they wanted to base America's currency on gold, which they of course controlled. They wanted to put America on a Gold Standard. This was in direct opposition to President Lincoln's policy of issuing Greenbacks, based solely on the good faith and credit of the United States. The Vancouver Sun article also quoted Gerald G. McGeer with the following statement, "They were the men interested in the establishment of the Gold Standard and the right of the bankers to manage the currency and credit of every nation in the world. With Lincoln out of the way they were able to proceed with that plan and did proceed with it in the United States. Within 8 years after Lincoln's assassination, silver was de-monetized and the Gold Standard system set up in the United States."

1866: The European central bankers wanted the re-institution of a central bank under their control and an American currency backed by gold. They chose gold as gold has always been relatively scarce and therefore a lot easier to monopolize, than, for example, silver, which was plentiful in the United States, and had been found in huge quantities with the opening of the American West. So, on April 12th, Congress went back to work at the bidding of the European central bankers. It passed the, "Contraction Act," which authorised the Secretary of the Treasury to contract the money supply by retiring some of the Greenbacks in circulation. This money contraction and it's disastrous results is explained by Theodore R. Thoren and Richard F. Walker, in their book, "The Truth In Money Book," in which they state the following, "The hard times which occurred after the Civil War could have been avoided if the Greenback legislation had continued as President Lincoln had intended. Instead there were a series of money panics, what we call recessions, which put pressure on Congress to enact legislation to place the banking system under centralized control. Eventually the Federal ResErve Act was passed on December 23rd 1913." This is how the, "Contraction Act," passed by Congress affected America (the money supply goes down purely because currency in circulation is being withdrawn): 1866 - $1,800,000,000 capita in circulation - approximately $50.46 per 1867 - $1,300,000,000 in circulation - approximately $44.00 per capita 1876 - $600,000,000 in circulation - approximately $14.60 per capita 1886 - $400,000,000 in circulation - approximately $6.67 per capita Therefore in the twenty years since 1866 two thirds of the American money supply had been called in by the bankers, representing a 760% loss in buying power over this twenty years. The money became scarce simply because bank loans were called in and no new ones were given.

1872: Ernest Seyd is sent to America on a mission from the Rothschild owned Bank of England. He is given $100,000 which he is to use to bribe as many Congressmen as necessary, for the purposes of getting silver de-monetized, as it had been found in huge quantities in the American West, which would eat into Rothschild's profits.

1873: Ernest Seyd obviously spent his money wisely, as Congress pass the, "Coinage Act," which results in the minting of silver dollars being abruptly stopped. Furthermore, Representative Samuel Hooper, who introduced the bill in the house, even admitted that Ernest Seyd had actually drafted the legislation.

1874: Ernest Seyd himself admitted who was behind the demonetizing of silver in America, when he makes the following statement, "I went to America in the winter of 1872 - 1873, authorized to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill de-monetizing silver. It was in the interests of those I represented, the governors of the Bank Of England, to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money."

1876: Due to the manipulation of the money supply in America, one third of the workforce is unemployed and unrest is growing. There are even calls for a return to Greenback money or silver money. As a result, Congress creates the, "United States Silver Commission," to investigate the problem. This commission clearly understood that the national bankers were the cause of the problem, with their deliberate contraction of the money supply. An excerpt of their report reads as follows, "The disaster of the Dark Ages was caused by decreasing money and falling prices...Without money, civilization could not have had a beginning, and with a diminishing supply, it must languish, and unless relieved, finally perish. At the Christian era the metallic money of the Roman Empire amounted to $1,800,000,000. By the end of the 15th century it had shrunk to less than $200,000,000...History records no other such disastrous transition as that from the Roman Empire to the Dark Ages..." Despite this damning report from the commission, Congress took no action.

THE AMERICAN MONEY SUPPLY, THAT WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO BE BACKED BY GOLD AND SILVER, WHOSE VALUE WAS SET BY CONGRESS, WAS GRADUALLY TRANSFORMED TO BECOME "MONEY" MADE OUT OF NOTHING AS DEBTS BY PRIVATE BANKS. THAT LEGALIZED COUNTERFEITING WAS THE SUPREME TRIUMPH OF ORGANIZED CRIME, TAKING CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT, WHICH HAS DOMINATED EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN THE USA SINCE THEN, WHICH HAS BEEN THE OVERALL SOCIAL CONTEXT IN WHICH ALL OTHER LESSER CRIMES WERE COMMITTED.

1881: The American people elect the Republican, James Garfield as the 20th President of the United States. This was a worry to the money changers, because as a Congressman, he had been Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and was a member of Banking and Currency. The money changers were therefore aware that President Garfield was in full knowledge of their scam on the American people. Indeed following his inauguration, President Garfield stated, "Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of deflation and depression originate." ... within a few weeks of making that statement, President Garfield was assassinated on 2nd July.

SEEMS LIKE A PATTERN, DOES IT NOT?

Corporations continued to gain power and influence. They had the laws governing their creation amended. State charters could no longer be revoked. Corporate profits could no longer be limited. Corporate economic activity could be restrained only by the courts, and in hundreds of cases judges granted corporations minor legal victories, conceding rights and privileges they did not have before.

Then came a legal event that would not be understood for decades (and remains baffling even today), an event that would change the course of American history. In Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad, a dispute over a railbed route, the US Supreme Court deemed that a private corporation was a "natural person" under the US Constitution and therefore entitled to protection under the Bill of Rights. Suddenly, corporations enjoyed all the rights and sovereignty previously enjoyed only by the people, including the right to free speech.

UNBELIEVABLY, WHEN ONE ATTEMPTS TO TRACE THAT DECISION BACK TO ITS SOURCE, IT LOOKS LIKE SOME KIND OF ERROR IN THE INDEXING OF THAT DECISION WHICH WAS THE SOURCE OF THE LEGAL FICTION THAT CORPORATIONS ARE LEGAL PERSONS, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WAYS THAT THE RELATIVE RIGHTS OF FLESH AND BLOOD INDIVIDUALS WERE DIMINISHED AND DESTROYED. OF COURSE, ONE CAN TRACE THOSE DEVELOPMENTS THROUGH SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS OF JURISPRUDENCE, BUT THE FINAL RESULT IS AN ABSURDITY THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE NEVER PARTICIPATED IN MAKING HAPPEN, NOR EVER AGREED TO, WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING!

This 1886 decision ostensibly gave corporations the same powers as private citizens. But considering their vast financial resources, corporations thereafter actually had far more power than any private citizen. They could defend and exploit their rights and freedoms more vigorously than any individual and therefore they were more free. In a single legal stroke, the whole intent of the American Constitution ”that all citizens have one vote, and exercise an equal voice in public debates” had been undermined. Sixty years after it was inked, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas concluded of Santa Clara that it "could not be supported by history, logic or reason." One of the great legal blunders of the nineteenth century changed the whole idea of democratic government. THAT WAS DONE BY STEALTH, WITHOUT ANY PRESIDENT, OR THE PEOPLE, PARTICIPATING OR EVEN BEING AWARE OF THAT HAPPENING, ALTHOUGH NOW IT HAS EXTREME CONSEQUENCES, THROUGH THE FUNDING OF THE POLITICAL PROCESSES, WHERE CORPORATIONS ARE ABLE TO OUTSPEND INDIVIDUALS BY MANY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE! CORPORATIONS CAN NOT YET VOTE, BUT THEY DOMINATE THE FUNDING OF THE POLITICAL PROCESSES.

Recall that quote from Abraham Lincoln:

"The Government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credits... By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity."

INSTEAD, THE LEGAL FICTIONS THAT CORPORATIONS ARE "PERSONS" HAVE GROWN UP AROUND THE PRIVATE BANKS THAT ARE ABLE TO CREATE THE PUBLIC "MONEY" SUPPLY OUT OF NOTHING, AS DEBTS! IN THOSE WAYS, SINCE THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, AMERICAN SOCIETY HAS BEEN MORE AND MORE TOTALLY DOMINATED BY FUNDAMENTAL LEGALIZED LIES, BACKED BY LEGALIZED VIOLENCE, WHILE THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF FLESH AND BLOOD HUMAN BEINGS HAVE BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY DIMINISHED AND DESTROYED BY THOSE DEVELOPMENTS.

IN THAT CONTEXT, I REPEAT MY OPINIONS THAT THESE ARE FACTS ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY:

President Abraham Lincoln approached the banksters in order to finance the war. They wanted usury of 28%. Lincoln refused to pay. In order to circumvent the banksters he issued $450,000,000 in GREENBACKS or U.S. Notes. These GREENBACKS were non usury paying notes and were backed by the credit of the nation. Of course the banksters were furious. Had President Lincoln lived and finished out his 2nd term he would have forever closed the door to the malicious influence of the "Bank" of Rome. On April 15, 1865, he fell a victim to the leaden bullet of the assassin John Wilkes Booth — another tool of the moneylenders!! In fact, IT APPEARS PROBABLE THAT 6 US presidents (William Henry Harrison, poisoned, in 1841, Zachary Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and John F. Kennedy 1963; 7 if we count FDR’s poisoning) were murdered because of their opposition to private central banks who can create interest-bearing money from nothing.

Lincoln was prophetic when he stated:

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my Country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed."

Lincoln was proved right and the Republic was decisively destroyed some years later in 1913, when the Federal Reserve Act was signed into law. In 1913, U.S. Congressman Charles Lindbergh famously argued: "The [Federal Reserve] Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this Bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized. The greatest crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill. From now on, depressions will be scientifically created."

In fact, President Woodrow Wilson, in 1916, looking back at his signing of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, considered it the most tragic and biggest mistake of his presidency and said this:

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial Nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world, no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IS NOW MORE THAN 99% BASED ON LEGALIZED LIES, BACKED BY LEGALIZED VIOLENCE, WHEREBY THE BIGGEST GANGSTERS, THE BANKSTERS, DOMINATE THE GOVERNMENT!

THAT IS THE REAL SOCIAL SITUATION INSIDE OF WHICH THE AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM OPERATES!

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 03:06 | 4711036 Ghordius
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as usual excellent comments from you. one thing though leaves me puzzled:

"1866: The European central bankers wanted the re-institution of a central bank under their control and an American currency backed by gold. They chose gold as gold has always been relatively scarce and therefore a lot easier to monopolize, than, for example, silver, which was plentiful in the United States, and had been found in huge quantities with the opening of the American West. So, on April 12th, Congress went back to work at the bidding of the European central bankers."

who were those European central bankers? in 1866, the most influential central banks in europe were the Bank of England and the Bank of France. And I somewhat suspect that the Bank of France had very little influence on the US. So aren't we talking about the Bank of England only?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 03:33 | 4711054 Mediocritas
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Control was already established before Lincoln, and I think you already know by whom ;-)

The bankers launch the war

 

Nathan Rothschild, of the Bank of England, issued an ultimatum: “Either the application for the renewal of the charter is granted, or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war.”


Jackson and the American patriots did not believe the power of the international moneylenders could extend so far. “You are a den of thieves-vipers,” Jackson told them. “I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out!”


Nathan Rothschild issued orders: “Teach these impudent Americans a lesson. Bring them back to Colonial status.” The British Government launched the War of 1812 against the United States. Rothschild's plan was to impoverish the United States through this war to such an extent that the legislators would have to seek financial aid... which, of course, would be forthcoming only in return for the renewal of the charter for the Bank of the United States. Thousands were killed, but what does that matter to Rothschild? He had achieved his objective; the U.S. Congress granted the renewal of the Charter in 1816.


-- Extracted from: http://www.michaeljournal.org/plenty49.htm

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 07:04 | 4711220 Ghordius
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thanks, Mediocritas. I guess that burning down the White House does count as "teach these impudent Americans a lesson"

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 23:28 | 4714858 Radical Marijuana
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I am not sure, Ghordius. Certainly, the Bank of England was the main player, through the development of the overall Anglo-American (Zionist) Empire. However, it all goes back and back, through history ... in ways which are extremely difficult to trace ... Therefore, the deliberately ambiguous phrase "European central bankers," in order to leave that open to interpretation, to even include the history of Rome, and so on and so forth ... which all tends to go back and back, to the metaphorical "Babylon" as the birthplace of "Neolithic Civilization," which had its own kinds of ruling classes evolving through all of those developments, which co-evolved with other classes of human beings, not to mention along with other animals and plants, in ways which, since the industrial revolution, have been radically changing the evolution of life on planet Earth as a whole, in drastically different ways, whose potential is wildly unpredictable at the present time!

Understanding human evolution is extremely complicated. One can only use various kinds of over-simplified "metaphorical" means to attempt to understand what was going on. I am not at all sure about the different levels of "metaphorical truths" that one could usefully employ in those regards. I try to remain open-minded towards different ways of "knowing." I am sure that I am NOT sure about whatever may have been the complete "literal truth" about human history, since I am sure that my little brain could never encompass that!

Fri, 05/02/2014 - 21:35 | 4722662 acetinker
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It was fucking Rothschild, you oververbose bloviator, and you fuckin' well know it.

I know you know a lot of stuff regarding the history of the people trying to react to the bankers, and by your words, you identify yourself.

You have done a matsterful job of creating a persona that seems friendly.

Yesterday, I left you a loaded compliment, and you ignored it.

Good onya, and fuck you very much!

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 20:51 | 4718259 acetinker
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Agreed all around, and thank you for your wise words-  Hope MiltonFriedmansGhost comes back to find them.

I have long opined that a leader of a State must have:

Deceased parents

No wife and kids

No material possessions

No past for which he/she can be blackmailed

No care if he/she lives or dies in his/her quest

There are others, but since there's no such person- or no such person whom the variously enslaved would seriously consider, it will never happen.

I'm fairly certain this is where the idea of periodic visits by heavenly deities derives.  Ergo, there must be a saviour in the heavens, mustn't there?

But really, I don't know.

Thanks Again, RM.

 

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 20:33 | 4718314 acetinker
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Oh, forgot something-

Lincoln had an Army.  He could have turned it against the banksters.  Instead, he wound up burning Atlanta.  Traitor.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:07 | 4709645 aqualech
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And the corporations that run these private slave camps lobby for long minimum sentences!  They line your "representatives'" pockets to pass laws to enslave the electorate!

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:07 | 4709647 aqualech
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And the corporations that run these private slave camps lobby for long minimum sentences!  They line your "representatives'" pockets to pass laws to enslave the electorate!

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:11 | 4709651 Son of Captain Nemo
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But Dick Cheney and the Koch Brothers swear it's working!!!... 

They're building new ones every day to increase the prison supply which is making them very rich and will guarantee early release to the military for the "3 strikes you're out" and marajuana user crowd that are doing hard time!

Don't ya see the beauty of it all?!!! /sarc

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:11 | 4709652 resurger
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For some reason on my smart phone I could not reply! RM good TLR. Jack, stay out ta prison love ya comments.. Is Francis Sawyer free!?

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:12 | 4709656 besnook
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western leaders since rome have always treated the commoner as chattle to be used and abused. the europeans have become partially enlightened but the attitude still prevails. where else would anyone privatize the prison system without consideration of the conflict profit brings to the table. fucking stupid or brutal or both.....and they can't wait for you to experience it first hand.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 20:44 | 4710178 Savyindallas
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Kind of like Sterling  - you can screw them, treat them as your slave, but don't let them be seen with other black people. We're all goyim  - I'm white, but I can relate to black people and their feelings about their Masters. .

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:56 | 4709662 samsara
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Tylers, Thank you for highlighting this farce called the prison system.

Cathrine Austin Fitts had a great couple of pieces on this from the background side.

You can start here with the Bush the Elder and continue on to the Clinton(with examples of how they are on the same side),

http://www.dunwalke.com/8_Dillon_Investment_in_Cornell.htm
(Continue at bottom of page)

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:16 | 4709666 F em all but 6
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Prision Industrial Complex= retribution that destroys the human spirit. There is NOTHING just in this form of punishment. If I am ever sent to prison and suffer rape, I will bide my time and endure. And when I am released I will unleash an absolute insane hell on those within the legal sytem that put me there. Yes, they would eventually kill me, but not before I had accomplished everything I set out to do. What they are doing to people is pure evil. And in turn they themselves would at my hand learn what it is like to be the victim of pure evil. Is that wrong? Absolutely. Would it damage my spririt? Without a doubt. Do I care? Under those conditions, not a chance. With me, you get what you get and you can only push a man so far before he snaps. Cause and effect. This sytem of retribution creates monsters that are eventually returned to society. You fuckers want a God damn monster? Lock me in a fuckin cage and rape me. See what the fuck happens.

Our entire system of so called justice is an absolute violation of universal law. We seem to forget that the very purpose of life itself is for the advancement of the human spirit. Punishment for crime should never entail the interference with the free will of the individual. NEVER. Banishment away from society is the only humane and proper solution for real crimes against other individuals. Forced to live away from society and survival through hard work would give the individual time to contemplate right from wrong. No interference with free will involved. No hand outs. Minimal medical care under humane standards. It would be a hell of alot cheaper and have a better outcome than what we have now.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:39 | 4709733 Advoc8tr
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The victims should both choose and administer the punishment.  The abrogation of responsibility and empowerment to the state or a 3rd party is what allows these horros to develop and be maintained IMO

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 20:22 | 4710098 Jendrzejczyk
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Curious about the pardoned 6.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 22:52 | 4710688 Skateboarder
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+truth. Exile is the only humane punishment. So many people think it okay to throw someone in a cage for the pettiest of reasons. What does it say about individuals and entire societies 'okay' with the breaking of another man's spirit. It is a most cruel fate, not unlike the dungeons of old. This time with rapists instead of rats.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 23:54 | 4710838 phaedrus1952
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Skate, your comment about "cage" prompted me to respond.  Out here in SF, Alcatraz is the numero uno tourist attraction.  Although I no longer make the comment, for quite some time when I would accompany my tourist friends/family to The Rock, I would casually say that those tiny 8 foot by 10 foot cells were actually considered a luxury compared to where I was.  To even get a cell to yourself you had to put your name on a 2 year long waiting list. My last year's accommodations were by far the most liveable and that consisted of 4 guys sharing a 10 foot by 11 foot space - far smaller than most bedrooms.  

Is there some kinda PETA for humans that can raise a fuss?

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 23:10 | 4710746 Flagit
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 11:44 | 4712288 AnAnonymous
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How many 'americans' drew revenge that way?

The wood 'americans' are made of is known. It is a fantasy piece as it is shown by so many 'americans'

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:26 | 4709693 Turdy Brown
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For the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my country!

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:31 | 4709710 jomama
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uhhhh, have you been living in a cave...?

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 19:59 | 4709807 Dr. Engali
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Are f---ing kidding me? How can you not be ashamed of every damn thing that's gone on for the last forty plus years?

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:27 | 4709695 samsara
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"The illusion of freedom [in America ] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."

Frank Zappa

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"'Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?' said Dr. Ferris. 'We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible

for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden,

that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.'"
Ayn Rand

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 23:56 | 4710900 Radical Marijuana
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YES, samsara!

That is certainly one hell of a terrifying quote from Frank Zappa, when one thinks about what that is going to mean in the future!

The American prisons would not be nearly so over-crowded without the "War on (some) Drugs." Of course, the majority of that "War on Drugs" is the war on marijuana. Therefore, the symbolism in pot politics is the best way to illustrate the rest of the social realities that surround the American prison system!

Hemp is actually the single best plant for people on the planet, for food, fiber, fun and medicine. However, marijuana laws were based on the Huge Lies (referred to as "reefer madness") that "marijuana was almost as bad as murder," because the assertions of facts that the marijuana laws were based upon were that "marijuana is an addictive narcotic, that drives people criminally insane, before it kills them." Those HUGE LIES, have been the heart of the drug war for decade after decade after decade. They have only finally started to collapse in the last couple of years.

The TRUTH is that marijuana is illegal because the government is EVIL. The banksters and their buddies, at the top of social pyramid systems, operating through large corporations, dominated the funding of the political processes, and therefore, the politicians ended up being their puppets, while the vast majority of people were brainwashed to believe in bullshit, and so, ended up being muppets, or Zombie Sheeple, that acted like political idiots, or incompetent citizens.

The "War on Drugs" was merely one more, in a long series of wars based on deceits, which had the real purpose of advancing the Debt Slavery systems. Hemp Truth was the single simplest symbol of the fact that America, and pretty well the whole world, was controlled by Huge Lies, backed up by Lots of Violence, which the biggest gangsters have been able to transform into systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence. The "War on Drugs" can be perceived as a special kind of "false flag attack," through which most people were taught to think that a few particular drugs were extremely dangerous boogie monsters, whose dangers justified exempting people involved in those heinous crimes from the protections established in their constitutional rights and freedoms. Of course, 9/11 Truth is currently the most spectacular symbol of the same basic political processes, demonstrating how those have been automatically getting worse, faster.

In my view, the mainstream morons that dominate most of the "legalize marijuana" movements are merely more controlled opposition, because they based their campaigns on compromises with the old Huge Lies, rather than base their campaigns on the radical Hemp Truth, namely marijuana is not illegal because "marijuana is bad," rather hemp was rebranded to become "marijuana," and all cannabis cultivation was criminalized, because the government is extremely evil, because the government is actually controlled by the banksters, which are the biggest gangsters.

Of course, I would also point out that after one starts down this rabbit hole, regarding the ways that the history of warfare became based on deceits, one should remember that there always were really existing chronic political problems, which had to be resolved somehow. Our civilization has ended up resolving its chronic political problems through systems which are actually based on the maximum possible deceits and frauds, which therefore are making all of those chronic problems become much worse, rather than be better resolved.

In that context, I repeat this link, to the macabre sense of humour presented by Deek Jackson about what the "War on Drugs" really was, which has more than anything else driven the American prison system to become what it is now:

http://main.fknnewz.com/blog/gfhfghf/

That collection of  video essays on Deek Jackson's Web site of the FKN NEWZ discussing drug wars begins to present a few more layers of radical truth regarding these topics. However, that too is relatively superficial, compared to how deep down maze of the rabbit holes of almost infinite tunnels of deceits that one can go, IF one really works at doing that!

As Ayn Rand wrote, the ruling classes apply the idea that "when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them." They took the single best plant on the planet for people, and built a fascist police  state upon the basis of enforcing the Lies that that plant was actually "almost as bad as murder." That did not happen by accident, it happened due to deliberate evil, and was maintained by evil deliberate ignorance.

Similarly, the inside job, false flag attacks, on 9/11/2001, were much more spectacular symbols of the same basic dynamics employed by the ruling classes to promote their social pyramid systems based on lies, backed by violence, which have become legalized lies, backed by legalized violence. Furthermore, the degree of the successful domination of those Huge Lies in controlling civilization has so totally buried the civilization under bullshit that the controlled opposition to those systems tends to believe in the same bullshit too.

Therefore, we are actually resolving the chronic political problems which are inherent to the nature of life through the means of the maximum possible deceits and frauds, while the controlled opposition groups to those runaway social insanities tend to be just as insane, if not theoretically more so, because they too believe in the bullshit frame of reference, which tends to deliberately ignore that there necessarily always were and will be chronic political problems which are inherent in the nature of life.

As my original comment above outlined, it is practically impossible to exaggerate the degree to which we are living inside of a civilization which is completely crazy, due to the degree to which it is dominated by legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, while that includes that almost all of the controlled opposition groups tend to just as much embrace the biggest bullies' bullshit world view as the biggest bullies pretended to do.

I REPEAT, THE WAR AGAINST MARIJUANA BECAME THE BACKBONE OF ORGANIZED CRIME, AND WAS THE MAIN FACTOR WITHIN THE WAR ON DRUGS, AND THUS THE SINGLE BIGGEST FACTOR WITHIN THE AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM. THEREFORE, UNDERSTANDING THE RADICAL TRUTH ABOUT THE WAR AGAINST MARIJUANA IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO DO IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM PROBLEMS.

However, when one does that thoroughly and systematically enough, one will discover that the mainstream morons that dominate the current "legalize marijuana" movements are merely more controlled opposition groups, which do NOT promote more radical Hemp Truth, but still compromise with the old Huge Lies. That illustrates the overall pattern of social facts, that our civilization as a whole is way too completely crazy for it to be able to address the chronic political problems which are inherent in the nature of life, because those problems have been resolved by solutions based on the maximum possible deceits and frauds so much, for so long, that almost all the controlled opposition groups are just as full of the same bullshit as the biggest bullies, the banksters, have been promoting.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:30 | 4709706 jomama
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That is roughly 600 a day or 25 every hour.

does the counter start at the point of penetration?

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:50 | 4709772 Conax
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The 4th thing up there, about the lousy, sickening food and everyone going hungry, I would question.  The prisoners I see (shown on tv, at least) look like pumped up steroid giants, in the well-equipped prison gym lifting weights; they must average about 225.  They look like cops.

They don't look like 'starvin Marvin' to me.

I hate all that prison ass-rape, since bull queers get to enjoy their sadistic activities while creating revengeful monsters that will be released on the public at some point.

Prison should be austere, fair, and the sentences short.  Murderers should be executed.  No gyms, no conjugal visits, no baseball teams, no tv, nothing but hard labor, simple food and discipline.  When you get out, you are healthy but you never want to come back.

That would be a decent prison.

 

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 19:48 | 4709977 MachoMan
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By only providing the bare minimum (if that), food becomes an incentive system and a lucrative business for the prison...  friends and family can send money so you get credit at the cantina...  same if you earn a wage while there...  so yes, some of the meals suck, but those aren't the only available meals.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 20:31 | 4710130 Savyindallas
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Most prisoners don't belong in prison. There are alternatives. Menawhile, th real criminals (i.e -Wall Street banksters, politicians, etc) prosper.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 00:17 | 4710865 phaedrus1952
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Geez, Conax.  I think it's great to put forth a constructive view on inmate conditions, but ya may wanna be careful if your perceptions are formed from TV.  For the record, the cost per day per inmate for food in the prison I was in in the 90's was $1.39 A DAY. As one of my jobs for several months was unloading the incoming food (?) from the delivery trucks, I have no doubt that frozen shit cost pennies.

The BEST meal, by far, in my several year incarceration was the TWO slices of pizza we had the second week of January as our delayed 'Christmas meal'  ... and the funds for that came from the inmates' general fund (I don't even know the source of that, actually, but we paid for it ourselves).

The main reason that I only lost 20 plus pounds in my 90 day stay in county jail was the fact that I took all the rice krispies and cheerios in the morning (6 dry cups worth that the other sleeping inmates shunned) and surreptitiously ate them at nite.  (No, I was not a fattie either.  I was a practicing black belt doing near 1,000 pushups a day)

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 11:15 | 4712129 Conax
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My son got locked in the county jail for 10 days once, the food there was inadequate and totally nasty-

I heard his favorite dinner there was lima beans, sauer kraut and lime jello.

Gaak!

I understand that prisons have better food, generally, than jails. 

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 18:55 | 4709781 kchrisc
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"Because of its prison system, the US is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women."

I have said it before, and I will say it again: If you think that government is and/or can do good, visit a prison or vet hospital.


Tue, 04/29/2014 - 19:14 | 4709845 22winmag
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An ounce of prevention is worth several hundred million pounds of cure.  

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 19:25 | 4709888 notadouche
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Just heard a "rumor" looking for confirmation.  First I'm not a smoker but it has been brought to my attention that starting next year anyone found buying cigarettes, through plastic purchase or DL scanning, will be denied the ability to buy life insurance.  I hate smoking, never did it and at my age never will but I loathe the notion of this rule.   

Anyone happen to have real knowledge on this issue I would love to hear about it.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 20:00 | 4710014 Emergency Ward
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For those that think America is a civilized country remember the good Socialist California Attorney General Bill Lockyer opining that inmate-on-inmate prison rape was an appropriate form of punishment in his prison system.  He didn't lose his job over that comment and lots of people praised him for it.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 04:05 | 4711082 AnAnonymous
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That was a good 'american' opinion.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 20:02 | 4710039 cougar_w
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On the subject of prison abuse:

http://fedtoatiger.blogspot.com/2014/04/judge-mark-ciavarella-is-fed-to-...

Thanks to @cannoncockerUSMC above for pointing me to this great cat food resource.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 20:12 | 4710064 mcgoverntm
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<p>Re: "America’s massive prison system is creating a long list of unintended consequences."  How does the author know that the consequences are unintended?  How could he possibly know?  The best tool for understanding a situation that seems not to make sense is to use the question first presented by Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Cui bono," "Who profits?"&nbsp; Looked at from that perspective, it's mucy easier to understand the real deal.</p>

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 20:28 | 4710117 Savyindallas
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Agree-  I think the consequences are known and intended

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 04:28 | 4711099 AnAnonymous
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Cui bono? the 'american' middle class.

In an 'american' society, the prison system is of, by and for the 'american' middle class, existing to secure an 'american' middle class in their entitlements.

And 'americans' run a business of farming the poor, extorting the weak. Prisons are fed with human material so it must be provided.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 20:20 | 4710089 Hannibal
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American Exceptionalism. USA #1

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 20:36 | 4710147 royal
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America is essentially a gigantic Gulag State.

The first thing that needs to be done when SHTF is to release at least 50% of all these "legal slaves."

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 09:40 | 4711654 headhunt
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Who decides which 50% gets released?

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 20:49 | 4710192 Smiley
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Facts are Racist.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 21:24 | 4710334 Goldilocks
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Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg (3:39)

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 07:56 | 4711287 TalkToLind
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Backside Boys - Every Homo

We're talkin about the US Prison system, right?

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 21:30 | 4710364 bigrooster
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The moral of the story is shoot first and don't go to jail.  Cops work for the prison system, not to protect you and I.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 01:26 | 4710965 WeeWilly
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Do you actually know any cops? I was one and know plenty. They don't fit into your narrow description. Maybe take a look at some information that doesn't just confirm your bias, Rooster...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 08:17 | 4711323 headhunt
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ignore the communist

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 01:27 | 4710966 WeeWilly
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*

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 21:46 | 4710414 rsnoble
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This meatloaf sandwich just got better.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 21:49 | 4710427 bigrooster
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Does anyone remember Deathwish?  Going Charles Bronson should be right up there with going Galt!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Death-Wish-2-Death-Wish-3-Death-Wish-4-/4006...

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 21:58 | 4710469 thamnosma
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That Alcatraz menu looks pretty good by non-prison standards, better nutrition than the sheep buy at the store these days.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 21:58 | 4710476 D-Fens
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Hell, ordinary life in America is a sort of prison.

 

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 08:15 | 4711320 headhunt
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Try Afghanistan

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 23:51 | 4710834 AchtungAffen
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In socialist hellhole Sweden, they're closing prisons because of a lack in inmates. Oh the humanity...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 00:14 | 4710861 A Dollar Short
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Is that where all those children got murdered on an island resort because guns were banned and they could not defend themselves?  I think the murderer was deemed insane and set free, is that correct?

 

Ahh, dear Sweeden..

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 00:29 | 4710884 Setarcos
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No.  Go check ... hint: it was another Scandanavian country.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 00:41 | 4710904 A Dollar Short
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Oh my, got my marbles crossed, still the same marble though..

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 04:26 | 4711097 AnAnonymous
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Excellent.

That is the way an 'american' justice system works.

There is no discontinuity between an 'american' base and its elite, they display exactly the same behaviour.

When a wrong person is sent to jail, the answer is the same: marbles crossed but still the same marble though...

Contrary to 'american' claims, no determiner in the function of judge, bankers etc...

In an 'american' society, judges are only 'americans' who happen to be judges.

Just like bankers are only 'americans' who happen to be bankers.

Of course, 'americans' offuscate that. They prefer to put the determinism where it is not, outside of 'americanism'.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 08:13 | 4711315 headhunt
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Are these comments your marching orders from Putin today?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 12:03 | 4712379 AnAnonymous
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'Americans'... Too bad they suck at geography.

Other than that, I could swear that they will provide a world tour to deny any comment on 'americanism'

Now I am receiving marching orders from Putin.

Funny 'americans', reality is too harsh for them to face so they need to build a world of fantasy...

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 07:37 | 4715311 headhunt
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Angry Anon - you can live anywhere and take your orders from the communists - like Putin

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 01:02 | 4710924 AchtungAffen
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"The law doesn't ban any specific firearms or weapons, it merely states the requirements to own one. Everything from pepperspray to fully automatic machine guns are technically legal, and licenses to civilians can be given in "special" cases. Like the other Nordic countries, Sweden has a high rate of gun ownership."

Salsa is Wikipedia.

Edit and BTW: In the US, where firearms are legal, they not only shoot children but a lot of adults too. And in record numbers. Better than socialist Sweden though...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 04:30 | 4711100 AnAnonymous
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And the 'american' european nationalist was not set free. But he complains about things like not being given the proper video games to play.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 07:35 | 4711250 IndianaJohn
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After arrest, picyures of Anders Breivik were shown wearing the silk "fairy apron" of a freemason.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 07:55 | 4711282 headhunt
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To compare Sweden, with its very homogenous society and belief system, to America is problematical to say the least.

You will note since the leftists have gained control of America and ended any assimilation of immigrants in the name of ‘multiculturalism’, as a country, we no longer have similar goals. This in turn drives wedges between groups and against each other. This is their plan, ‘divide and conquer’ and the  elites remain in power and no one cares about the other groups well being.

Welcome to the USSA brought to you by the leftists like Reid, Pelosi, communist union chiefs.

By the way the middle class has nothing to do or gain by having a large prison population, as a matter of fact the ‘middle class’ loses in that deal. That is just F’d up communist propaganda.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 08:53 | 4711429 AnAnonymous
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Sure, sure.

Negroes are the plague of 'americans'. Liars never enjoy walking around with a sheet of paper on their upper brow, reading that they are liars.

Negroes in the US were there from the very start of the 'american' experience.

They also form a large bulk of the prison population.

As to be assimilated, they were assimilated like no other actually.

Apart from recent immigration, all the other negroes cant even tell where their ancestors were from, apart that they were from Africa.

Just like the rest of humanity that is also from Africa.

'American' assimilation: complete as complete it can be.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 09:21 | 4711560 headhunt
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A little sensitive there fella.

Nobody said anything about 'Negroes are the plague of Americans' - the real prejudice and issue comes out with some.

Their are whole groups of people and their descendants from all over the world who have come to America, some by force, most on a quest for freedom. who used to assimilate into American culture and became an American. Now whole groups of people (of all colors, creeds, races, etc.) refuse to assimilate and become an American. They want to be 'X' with 'X's' culture but they still want to live in 'horrible' America. They are hypocrites and whiners who want to be victims of their own making. Their own making because year after year they vote for the communists and leftists whose only interest is to steal their education and dumb down Americans in order to manipulate these groups and maintain their power.

For all its sins and all the destruction brought on by the leftists on our society the US is still the best place in the world to live. Not sure for how much longer.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 11:40 | 4712263 AnAnonymous
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Sensitive? How?

Negroes are the plague of 'americans'. Just planting a negro in a room and then 'american' lies are exposed.

'Americans' are propagandist at heart, negroes are their scourge as their mere presence usually provide a counter example for 'american' propaganda.

Here, on the assimilation bit: negroes in the US are assimilated. They are 'american' of heart, mind and soul.

And they were there from the beginning.

That is how negroes are the plague of 'americans'. For an 'american', the presence of a negro just aside always shouts 'americans' are liars.

As to the US being the best place to live, it is the best place for being protected from 'americanism'

It remains that it is packed with 'americans'.

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 07:35 | 4715310 headhunt
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Angry Anon - you are a racists who has let that hate seep into your logic.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 12:51 | 4712600 Jack4952
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To HEADHUNT:

You wrote, "the US is still the best place in the world to live."

HAVE YOU EVER LIVED OUTSIDE THE U.S. ?????

As an American (who has traveled in many other countries and left the U.S. for good in 2009), I find your statement astoundingly ill-informed. I can think of at least 20 countries where life is MUCH BETTER in ALL RESPECTS than in America. The fact is that the America in which I was born NO LONGER EXISTS, sad to say.  In America I had a great life and splendid career (medicine and research). Sure, America was far from perfect and a lot of corruption existed, but no place is perfect.  Then 9-11 happened - and the police state took hold. By 2007 I became convinced that the future in America was bleak, so in 2009 we sold all our U.S.-based assets and left the U.S. forever.  Sure, we were sad to leave, but to us the "writing was on the wall". But in retrospect, we are happier than ever - and feel much more secure and free.

I did not leave my country; my country left me.

-- Jack4952

http://JohnHenryHill.Wordpress.com


 

 

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 07:34 | 4715307 headhunt
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Jack4952 - Why yes I have lived outside the US and I suppose I should have added the caveat that America is still the best place to live unless you are wealthy. If you are wealthy there are many desirable places to live outside the US, you are obviously wealthy.

I agree the police state is doing its best, with the democrats, communists and fascists at the wheel, to imprison the American population (that is communism) but I refuse to give up - yet.

PS - your flag should be flown upside down not changed to represent nothing.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:11 | 4713965 AchtungAffen
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"Communists" and "leftists" in the US? Being voted? Hahahaha! I have yet to see one...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 08:56 | 4711446 AnAnonymous
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By the way the middle class has nothing to do or gain by having a large prison population, as a matter of fact the ‘middle class’ loses in that deal. That is just F’d up communist propaganda.
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Communists have ever pointed out how the prison system served the best interests of an 'american' middle class? Damn, they would mean they did something worthwhile in their life time.

In an 'american' society, the prison system is of, by and for the 'american' middle class.

It enables middle classers in consumption, the ultimalte goal, wish and dream of any middle classer.

Apart from that, it serves not the middle class.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 09:36 | 4711639 headhunt
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That is just F'd up crack cocaine delusion.

Get off the crack dude.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 12:04 | 4712391 AnAnonymous
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What delusion is that?

The prison system in an 'american' society is an institution by, of and for the 'american' middle class.

Bear with it.

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 07:23 | 4715287 headhunt
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No 'Bears' here - but you obviously are a Russian Bear troll

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 00:31 | 4710887 Seek_Truth
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This is a national disgrace. There are a percentage of inmates (one can argue the actual %) who are wrongly convicted, innocent of the charges they have been convicted of.

There is absolutely zero excuse for subjecting these innocents to the whims of the District Attorney who only cares that his office "won" rather than that justice was served.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/

 

 

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 00:33 | 4710891 A Dollar Short
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All Prisions in America should be austere, sparce, and include work for food and board programs.  No one excluded.  Clean up highways, clear our streams.

 

I suggest the middle of Death Valley for the largest prisions, demolising all others near high population.  The only thing conditioned should be individual rooms, stacked 3 high with bunks.  All rooms should have outside cameras and rapists should get immediate years added to their sentence.

 

English should be the only language spoken, after all, you are incarcerated in America.  There should be no library, TV or anything else to take your time up except introspective thought and conversation with your 2 buds.

'Am I a racist?  Or realist?

Rev. Jessie Jackson Jr. deserves a long prision term, politicians and gangsters take a long time to tame.

 

 

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 00:58 | 4710921 Seek_Truth
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Because everyone who goes to prison is guilty, right?

http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/21/11756575-researchers-more-than-2000-false-convictions-in-past-23-years?lite

http://www.law.umich.edu/clinical/innocenceclinic/Pages/wrongfulconvictions.aspx

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/causes-wrongful-convictions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscarriage_of_justice

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/

http://guardianlv.com/2014/04/death-row-prisoners-at-least-4-percent-likely-to-be-wrongly-convicted/

http://www.nature.com/news/death-penalty-analysis-reveals-extent-of-wrongful-convictions-1.15114

Douchnozzle.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 04:08 | 4711088 AnAnonymous
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With 'americans', their obsession usually suddenly burst out.

What does the last line to do with the rest?

Suddenly, one name is dropped and end of the story.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 01:08 | 4710936 james.connolly
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Coming to you all soon will be a free stay at CAMP-FEMA, and it will make your prison story's seem like going to disneyland.

The options are few ...

1.) fight and die in the coming civil war ...

2.) Camp Fema holiday, good time to read "Andersonville", and learn about the history of USA MIL prison's during war-time

3.) Leave  the USA a long time before the shoot start's.

>>>

The USA was always a 'failed penal colony'

My thoughts on 'prison' most country's on earth have conjugal visits, and don't have solitary confinement, and let men who have their own money buy their own food, and bedding, and clothes.

Prison in most of the world is simply to protect society from predator's.

Prison in the USA is really just a way that Sociopaths and psychopaths ( lawyers, judges, cops ) can put men in cages and rape them, .... .e.g. prisons in the USA make Fascist Fantasy possible.

Anybody of their own free will and mind that remains in the USA is a complete fucking moron and/or  idiot.

 

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 01:17 | 4710946 blue gkm
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America is a police state with the illusion of freedom.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 01:53 | 4710999 james.connolly
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"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin 1960's

There said it

After they take all and rape you, and steal your money, kill your dog, take away your children, ... and incarcerate you they'll tell you that you are free,

But what does 'freedom' really mean in the USA?

It don't mean SHIT.

Is this NEW? Fuck no its been this way ALL my fucking life and this is why I will NEVER live NEAR the USA.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 12:13 | 4712427 Jack4952
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The primary law in America is still the COMMON LAW, in which a crime MUST involve INJURY to another person or another person's property. (Actually, a person is considered his OWN property.)

When someone is charged with a "crime" in America today, he actually still has the CHOICE of choosing the TYPE OF COURT JURISDICTION in which to be tried. He can choose either a Common Law court (a true "court of record") OR an administrative court (Admiralty-Maritime court; commercial court; contract law court). (The thrid type of court is an EQUITY court, but it has supplanted in America by Maritime-Admiralty courts in most cases.) HOWEVER, the legal system is NOT required to inform him of this fact; and since his lawyer is officially an "officer of the court" (administrative court) with a primary duty to that court, he is NOT allowed to inform his client. In fact, by definition a "client" of a BAR attorney is a "ward of the court" and is considered "incompetent to defend himself". So, when you hire an attorney, you are VOLUNTARILY declaring (via your CONTRACT with the attorney, as an officer of the court) that youj are incompetent and are thereby granting the administrative court jurisdiction over you. When you enter a PLEA in court (any plea at all!), you are also granting jurisdiction to the administrative court. NOTE: the keeping of a TRANSCRIPT of court proceedings does NOT mean you are in a true "court of record". A true "court of record", in which you retain ALL YOUR RIGHTS, can be ONLY a Common Law court in which NO STATUTES are allowed!

Now, if you do NOT explicitly DEMAND a "trial by jury" in a true "court of record" (a Common Law court), then the court PRESUMES that you waived that right and have VOLUNTARILY submitted yourself to the jurisdiction of the Maritime-Admiralty court, in which you have waived all your rights under the Constitiution. You have VOLUNTEERED to waive ALL your natural rights and ALL your Constitutional protections of those rights !!!!! (This is all described in Title 18 of the U.S. Code, if you want to research it yourself.) That you do not know the law is your problem: "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." It is PRESUMED that you know the law; and if you do NOT explicitly object to the application of Maritime-Admiralty jurisdiction, then under the Common Law you have CONSENTED to be under the jurisdiction of that Maritime-Admiralty jurisdiction. ("Silence is consent."; and "He, who does not object, consents.")

Of importance is that a Common Law court (true "court of record") operate. ONLY under the Common Law - NO statutes apply; and one has the right to a "trial by jury" of 12 people whose verdict is BINDING (if found innocent). In a Maritime-Admiralty court (the typical court in which almost all people are convicted today) statutes and regulations DO apply; and if you request a trial, you MAY get a "jury trial" of between 6-12 people whose verdict is NOT binding on the judge - it is legally considered an "advisory opinion" which the judge can over-rule as he wishes!! Thus, a "trial by jury" (in Common Law) and a "jury trial" (Maritime-Admiralty Law) are NOT the same thing at all!

It is easy to see how people who do NOT possess this knowledge could be tricked into accepting the jurisdiction of an administrative Maritime-Admiralty court. (However, if STATUTES, CODES, REGULATIONS, ORDINANCES, BY-LAWS, etc. are mentioned anywhere OR you are asked to enter a "PLEA", then those are immediate tip-offs that you are in a Maritime-Admiralty court!!!)

So, WHY would anyone WITH this knowledge (above) choose a Common Law court over a Maritime-Admiralty court? Well, if I received a traffic ticket for running a Stop sign on an empty road at 3AM, I would demand a true "court of record" operating under the Common Law -- because under the Common Law, STATUTES do NOT APPLY, so since no person or property was injured, there was NO crime. Case dismissed! Likewise, if I was arrested for marijuana possession, I would demand a Common Law court - since no injury occurred to any person or property, then under the Common Law there is NO crime. Case dismissed!

But if I was arrested for stealing a car (an injury to someone's property), I might considered be tried in an administrative Maritime-Admiralty court. Why? Because under the Common Law, upon conviction the penalty for theft of property is DEATH!!! Alternately, in a Maritime-Admiralty court, the penalty for theft varies as per legislated STATUTE - and certainly will be much less severe than death! (In an EQUITY court, statutes also apply, which explains why EQUITY courts were first established: to ease what many regarded as overly-severe penalties for some crimes under the Common Law. Maritime-Admiralty Law - most commonly used in courts today - is, of course, the "Law of the Sea", AKA: "Law Merchant", contract law, commercial law -- that is, it requires a CONTRACT to be enforceable) which has been moved onto the land.

In short, under the U.S. Constitution anyone who is arrested can CHOOSE the JURISDICTION in which he is tried: the Common Law, Equity Law or Maritime-Admiralty Law.  Each type has its advantages and its disadvantages.

-- Jack

http://JohnHenryHill.Wordpress.com 


 

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 01:23 | 4710953 WeeWilly
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"guards didn't give a shit about the rules." Wow Macho. paint with a broad brush? All guards? Some guards? Too simple...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 15:11 | 4710981 messymerry
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Ah,, yes, the "Criminal Industrial Complex".  Follow the money Gents...

There's no question that our system of punishment and reintegration is a cruel and unusual farce. 

Why of the three co-equal branches of govt., does Justice get a pass?

OBTW:  Mr. Coltrane, these rapists are not faggots.  They are very evil men that just take what they want and like to show dominion over other men.  And, the police, guards, and wardens, and all the others in the CIC could give a shit if some evil is done on their watch.  They joke about it...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 02:21 | 4711018 John_Coltrane
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The obvious solution to both the current prision system and the overcrowding thereof is:  legalize all drugs, presciption and otherwise.  No exceptions.  The use of drugs is just a health issue.  But it is responsible for most of the huge police size and the prision population.  If you want to kill yourself by an eventual overdose, fine.  Freedom and responsibility are the ying and yang of life.

The solution to the rape problem in prision is simple, chemical and/or physical castration of the aggressors as should be done in any rape case with video evidence (easily obstained in a prision situation).  Monitor all cells 24/7.  My guess is a few less swinging dicks (literally) would get the message RAPE BAD out loud and clear.  And like the death penalty, there would be no repete offenses by definition.

Faggots suck and not in a good way.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 03:15 | 4711045 Obamanism
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This sector will expand when everyone is taken to FEMA camps.

When ask what my Occupation is I always answer Tax Slave and now I will say Tax Slave and Debt Prisoner

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 04:19 | 4711092 AnAnonymous
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The 'problem' can only evolve one way.

The resources are showing up less and less fast so inputs toward 'american' societies are declining.

This will increase certain 'american' economics sectors over others.

The prison system is an 'american' society is an institution by, of and for the 'american' middle class.
The servants to the 'american' middle class (like judges, prisons owners etc...) are only rewarded when they manage to secure the 'american' middle class living off the prison system in their entitlements.

As a consequence, jailing people is going to be a booming sector.

'Americans' run a business of farming the poor, extorting the weak. The prison system is fed with human material.

At this point, it turns funny as the trend might be torn between outsourcing the prison system (sending abroad 'american' jobs) or finding even more material to feed the 'american' prison system.

'Americans' might even import people so they can put them into jail so that the 'american' middle class living off the prison system may be secure in their entitlements.

Or maybe not, the demotion of certain 'americans' from their middle class status might make them elegible material to be used to feed the 'american' prison system.

Many questions but one: the 'american' prison system will go booming as it is an institution for, of and by the 'american' middle class.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 06:13 | 4711162 james.connolly
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Well you have hit the nail on the head, its called the TRIFFEN DILLEMA,

A country that is reserve currency must exports jobs, and then kill or imprison their un-employed, that's ok you can pay for jails and gaurds with the FREE FIAT.

Who gives fuck if all but the elite are imprisoned?

Who gives a fuck if they die in prison from Aides or rape, cheaper to have them kill themselves, then no blood on the hands of the ruling elite.

All has been carefully PLANNED.

Nobody fucking cares, ... welcome to AMeriKKKa.

 

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 06:44 | 4711194 AnAnonymous
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The ruling elite being WeThePeople aka the 'american' middle class.

The prison system in an 'american' society is thought to serve the best interests on the 'american' middle class.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 08:39 | 4711372 d edwards
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If you don't do the crime you won't do no time.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 08:58 | 4711454 AnAnonymous
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Absolutely. And as 'americans' define what crime is and to who it shall apply, there it is how it serves the 'american' middle class.

If you do not come on Earth a negro you wont do no slavery time.
If you do not come on Earth an Indian you wont do no robbed land time.

The way it works in an 'american' society.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 08:42 | 4711390 Atlas Crapped
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"cheep labor for private gains."

Was that a Freudian Tweet?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 08:56 | 4711447 villainvomit
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“I was raped by at least 27 different inmates over a nine month period. I don’t have to tell you that it was the worst nine months of my life… [I]

 

And you killed how many ?

 

27 ?

 

If not....perhaps that was the best nine months of your life...twenty seven times, raped ?  I call bullshit or bodies on the floor.

 

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 10:09 | 4711815 Clowns on Acid
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Slaves...? Like in the NBA..?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 12:05 | 4712396 AnAnonymous
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No, slave like the current POTUS.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 12:41 | 4712558 Jim Shoesesta
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I guess probably the best way to reduce the black poplulation in prisons would be for  them to stop committing the majority of crimes. 

 

As for number 2, the big difference is black slaves in 1850 were slave through no fault of thier own. To compare historic slavery with the siutation of present day inmantes is fallicious, if not out right ridiculous, and as a black American, I find it insulting to my heritage. 

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