Institutionalizing America: Will You be an Inmate or Convict? Choose Wisely

This is an archived video from Feb. of 2021. Someone on Twitter, Liza ( @SolizLiza ), asked about the video I did a while ago talking about institutionalization and the Shawshank Redemption and wondered if I knew where she could find it. I was unable to but AuntBB ( @AuntBee8 ) did find it and posted it for Liza to view. Looking back it's a good video so I wanted to post it as part of my archive for you guys to see. So many of my vids were lost to YouTube censorship over the years. Too many to count. BB suggested the other day I should start reposting some of them so they aren't lost forever. Might as well start with this one. Thanks to Liza and AuntBB. Enjoy.

Shawshank Revisited (archive)

(archived from December 10, 2012)

by Scott Creighton

 

there is a harsh truth to face

When we allow for-profit prison corporations, Wall Street traded entities, to  lobby state and federal lawmakers for harsher sentences and even to insert minimum occupancy clauses in their contracts, and then allow them to open their correctional institution up to other for-profit enterprises, how is that unlike what the fascists did with the work camps in Germany? We pay them a little something? We pay them a little something so they can buy incredibly marketed up goods at what amounts to the new “company store”. We pay them a little something so the for-profit prison they are condemned to can back charge the inmates for medicine and other things they are already charging the state for so they can make even more profit. We pay them something now so that people like you won’t be completely disgusted with the new friendly face we are putting on modern day slavery.

Anyone remember the Shawshank Redemption? Anyone remember what happens when prisons are run like contracted plantations for cash under the table?

We have more people in prison than any other nation on the planet.

We put people in prison for lengthy terms for what amounts to a medical condition treated as such by the rest of the civilized world.

Alabama Is Generating Billions by Trapping People in Prison

from More Perfect Union

My Interview with PressTV's We The People Show Hell Hole!

Hell Hole! https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/04/27/702294/Hell-Hole!