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10-21-2011, 04:50 AM
Most of you don't know how much money can be made out of prisons and prisoners. Let's see about informing you. This was originally laid out by a friend of mine, so I preserve the link order.
Here's the original bit: Efforts to replace immigrant workers in Alabama fields coming up short. (http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/10/state_program_to_replace_immig.html) The headline is self-explanatory. Basically, the people who are willing to work the crap field jobs? Don't have the strength, stamina, or speed to work them.
A four-person crew of immigrant workers can pick and box more than 250 crates of tomatoes in a day, Spencer said, or enough for each person on the crew to earn about $150 at the height of the harvest.
A 25-person team of citizens recently picked and processed about 200 boxes in a day, he said, earning each member only $24. Spencer said the people weren't in good enough physical condition to work harder or longer hours and typically gave up when faced with acre after acre of tomato plants ready to be picked.
The Alabama government brosefs are in denial, though. They just think people are too lazy to pick the fields properly. They tried getting prison labor out there too, but that failed - we here in GA could have told them this, but Alabamans don't listen to a dang thing we say. Pro-tip: If we in GA try the same damn thing and fail, it might be wise to watch and learn.
But that's all right. You see, the real purpose of these illegal immigrant laws that have been passed in GA, AZ, and AL are to fill up the private prisons: A boom behind bars: Private jail operators are making millions off the crackdown on illegal aliens (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42197813/ns/business-us_business/t/boom-behind-bars/#.Tp35YnJinTo) You see, once they're incarcerated in private prisons, the private prison corporations can lease them out as labor to whoever they like. Factories, fields, whatever - it's all totally legal and there's a whole lot of money in it.
Oh, but they'll eventually get out and be deported, right? WRONG! Most people don't know this, but there are cute little laws in regards to incarcerating illegal immigrants. You see, legally we can keep them incarcerated indefinitely. That's right, we can pick up Jose and Jesus when they're 20 and just hopped over the border and keep them in jail till they die of old age. The whole time, they're leased out to Widget Corp to make widgets at significantly less than minimum wage in the factories (about $1.50/hr, Widget Corp doesn't pay any benefits). Or pick vegetables in the fields. Or work road construction. Whatever.
Even better? If we legislate that anchor babies aren't US citizens, we can do the same with them. Little Manuel is born and 6 months later he goes into the juvenile system. He remains there until 18, when he is transferred to the adult prison system. Little Manuel lives and dies in prison, never getting out and being used as corporate fodder. AWESOME. For the corporations.
Got all that? Don't know who CCA is and the main players for the whole prison-for-profit thing? Read up:
Corrections Corporation of America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America)
Pershing Square Capital Management (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=12722532)
ALEC (http://alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed)
One of my favorite articles:
Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741)
It was last December at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. Inside, there was a meeting of a secretive group called the American Legislative Exchange Council. Insiders call it ALEC.
It's a membership organization of state legislators and powerful corporations and associations, such as the tobacco company Reynolds American Inc., ExxonMobil and the National Rifle Association. Another member is the billion-dollar Corrections Corporation of America — the largest private prison company in the country.
...
The law could send hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to prison in a way never done before. And it could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to private prison companies responsible for housing them.
(Not that there's any need for this legislation if you live in one of the Constitution-free zones. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/28/1020846/-ALECs-Immigration-Legislationno-need-for-it-unless-you-live-in-the-US-Constitution-Free-Zone))
Y'know, it's funny. I never thought they would find a way to legally reinvent slavery without actually calling it such.
Here's the original bit: Efforts to replace immigrant workers in Alabama fields coming up short. (http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/10/state_program_to_replace_immig.html) The headline is self-explanatory. Basically, the people who are willing to work the crap field jobs? Don't have the strength, stamina, or speed to work them.
A four-person crew of immigrant workers can pick and box more than 250 crates of tomatoes in a day, Spencer said, or enough for each person on the crew to earn about $150 at the height of the harvest.
A 25-person team of citizens recently picked and processed about 200 boxes in a day, he said, earning each member only $24. Spencer said the people weren't in good enough physical condition to work harder or longer hours and typically gave up when faced with acre after acre of tomato plants ready to be picked.
The Alabama government brosefs are in denial, though. They just think people are too lazy to pick the fields properly. They tried getting prison labor out there too, but that failed - we here in GA could have told them this, but Alabamans don't listen to a dang thing we say. Pro-tip: If we in GA try the same damn thing and fail, it might be wise to watch and learn.
But that's all right. You see, the real purpose of these illegal immigrant laws that have been passed in GA, AZ, and AL are to fill up the private prisons: A boom behind bars: Private jail operators are making millions off the crackdown on illegal aliens (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42197813/ns/business-us_business/t/boom-behind-bars/#.Tp35YnJinTo) You see, once they're incarcerated in private prisons, the private prison corporations can lease them out as labor to whoever they like. Factories, fields, whatever - it's all totally legal and there's a whole lot of money in it.
Oh, but they'll eventually get out and be deported, right? WRONG! Most people don't know this, but there are cute little laws in regards to incarcerating illegal immigrants. You see, legally we can keep them incarcerated indefinitely. That's right, we can pick up Jose and Jesus when they're 20 and just hopped over the border and keep them in jail till they die of old age. The whole time, they're leased out to Widget Corp to make widgets at significantly less than minimum wage in the factories (about $1.50/hr, Widget Corp doesn't pay any benefits). Or pick vegetables in the fields. Or work road construction. Whatever.
Even better? If we legislate that anchor babies aren't US citizens, we can do the same with them. Little Manuel is born and 6 months later he goes into the juvenile system. He remains there until 18, when he is transferred to the adult prison system. Little Manuel lives and dies in prison, never getting out and being used as corporate fodder. AWESOME. For the corporations.
Got all that? Don't know who CCA is and the main players for the whole prison-for-profit thing? Read up:
Corrections Corporation of America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America)
Pershing Square Capital Management (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=12722532)
ALEC (http://alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed)
One of my favorite articles:
Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741)
It was last December at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. Inside, there was a meeting of a secretive group called the American Legislative Exchange Council. Insiders call it ALEC.
It's a membership organization of state legislators and powerful corporations and associations, such as the tobacco company Reynolds American Inc., ExxonMobil and the National Rifle Association. Another member is the billion-dollar Corrections Corporation of America — the largest private prison company in the country.
...
The law could send hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to prison in a way never done before. And it could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to private prison companies responsible for housing them.
(Not that there's any need for this legislation if you live in one of the Constitution-free zones. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/28/1020846/-ALECs-Immigration-Legislationno-need-for-it-unless-you-live-in-the-US-Constitution-Free-Zone))
Y'know, it's funny. I never thought they would find a way to legally reinvent slavery without actually calling it such.