That makes sense. If the inmates knew all about the for profit prison system and back door slavery they’d be very enraged about it.
The book is “Chokehold,” by Paul Butler, a former Washington DC prosecutor who wrote it after being wrongly arrested. From the article:
Butler, who is African-American, wrote the book after he was arrested on false assault allegations, an event that dramatically changed his view of the justice system.
“During the trial, I experienced for myself a lot of things that defendants I’d prosecuted said were evidence of how unfair the system was: Police lied, witnesses who knew what happened didn’t come forward,” Butler told The Guardian in 2017.
“The jury took less than 10 minutes to acquit me,” he said, because “I could afford the best lawyer in the city, had legal skills and social standing, and because I was innocent.
“But the experience made a man out of me. It made a black man out of me.”
According to the article they also banned one of Maya Angelou’s book too.
So I’m guessing that the officials want to keep them 100% imprisoned, physically and mentally.
End slavery.
This is literally the reason prison education programs and libraries have been defunded, neglected, and often straight up removed from even low security sites.
In the 70s and 80s (and frankly before that, but those decades coincide with the general Tough On Crime™ push that’s still running amok) there was a boom in self-taught and correspondence taught lawyers coming out of jail. These people then turned around and became advocates for reform and/or defense lawyers in relatively large numbers.
Can’t have that, so what do you do? You narrow the options for prisoner education. The less options an incarcerated person has, the more likely they’ll wind up back in prison.
This is slavery, yes. And it’s also a wholesale attack on the (spurious, but still) idea of rehabilitation through imprisonment.
(via theculturedmarxist)
(via toooni)
I’m gonna be like that annoying friend who invites everyone over for a party and then the “party” is actually her trying to sell you vibrators and tupperware, except at my party instead of vibrators and tupperware it’s union cards
“And since you’re all here….for the low, low price of $11 per month plus one month’s dues initiation fee, you too can receive this stylish membership card! It comes in 12 exciting colors and they’re all red.”
Better than people I haven’t spoken to since high school trying to sell me a pyramid scheme.
Idea: pitching militant unionism like a pyramid scheme
“….so you sign up and get a red card and start paying dues, and you can become a delegate and start signing up new members yourself!”
“Okay, but what’s the payout?”
“That’s the best part! Get enough members involved and the payout will be everything. All of it. Civilization’s entire productive capacity!”
(via efferve-scence)
This is terrifying.
So yeah. When they say “LOL libturds call everything Nazis”
Remember this.
They literally want Adolf Hitler’s face on money.
They want to bring back concentration camps.
They want to purge the ‘undesirables’.
And they want to divert attention from these points until it’s too late, until all of a sudden it’s the middle of kristallnacht 2.0 and there’s no one left to speak out for you.
They are, literally, absolutely goddamned Nazis. They are as Nazi as the Nazis who worked under Adolf Hitler, who were really into being Nazis, who incidentally are their heroes. They’re fuckin Nazis.
Which is of course what POC, Jewish people, and black people have been saying, but nah you all want to go on about how both sides have points.
No they fucking don’t.
And saying so is an act of violence.
I hope this gentleman remains safe too. The fact that’s he’s even come out with this puts him in a lot of danger. A whole lotta kudos to him and I sincerely hope he’ll stay safe.