Approximately 70% of all persons incarcerated are there on drug and/or drug conspiracy charges. We have known about the benefits of decriminalization of drug use for years, using resources that would have otherwise been spent on prisons and instead supporting addiction treatment and research. Once drugs become legal, the profit motive is gone and many criminal enterprises will disappear in an instant including some violent crime. However, mom and dad are so afraid of junior getting a hold of a joint because of the pseudo-theory of “entry” drugs (including mom and dad’s martinis) that legalization will most certainly lead to their children becoming substance dependent.

We have grown our way into imprisoning too many citizens. Until politicians get the chutzpah to make the deal to decriminalize drugs, the growth of the prison industry will continue; CCA is there to ensure we keep our prisons full. It’s not like social and economic policy is dictated by business interests. Very sad indeed.

I don’t think so, the state and federal prison systems create a Bond off every court case (penal sum certain) and that Bond is deposited on Wall Street hence the reason American leads the world in incarcerations.

America has 5% of the worlds population and 25% of the worlds prisoners. Allowing a private Corporation that is driven by Wall Street to run the prison systems is fukkin insane. 90% of the inmates in America have been charged with non-violent crimes (IRS, Marijuana, etc).

Did you know that every court in America is a Corporation? Did you know every court in America has a D&B rating? Did you know that every court in America has an EIN number? When you can create monitized instruments and deposit them on Wall Street whereby the system is designed to create fiat $$ off putting people in jail you have a system driven to convict people regardless if their innocent or not. THAT IS ONE VERY FUKKED UP SYSTEM.

Just ask Wal-Mart as they buy more prison Bonds than any other Company on the planet.

The truth is you are guilty until proven innocent.

As a result of a few stories I’ve read, I started paying attention to some county court records and it is amazing the number of bench warrants issued for show cause debt hearings where the debtor didn’t show out of fear or other reasons. One I’m watching is in MI.

Prisons are almost doubled in occupancy now or worse and if they want assurance there will be 80-90 percent in the future that means the move toward letting non violent offenders out might just happen.

We have way too many in prison.