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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, March 12th, 2012 6:04pm PDT - promote requested by Boise_Lib.

American-sized justice.

I fixed that for you.
>> ^MrFisk:

American-sized "justice".

Go prison lobby!

None of us should complain, we should invest in companies that profit from throwing the book at small crime offenders.

>> ^deathcow:

Go prison lobby!
None of us should complain, we should invest in companies that profit from throwing the book at small crime offenders.


Prison population = cheap/free factory labour

open for business!

http://blogs.canada.com/2012/03/06/richard-branson-on-c10-drug-laws-its-just-not-the-answer/

Now all the conservatives need is for Canada to get in on the Iran slaughter honey pot..

The ladder to holier-than- thou aristocracy is infinite but always feels good to be a couple rungs further above the scum! Got a hundred million, don't need no stinkin democracy!

I guess they figured it's worked so well cutting crime in the United States....

Oh wait, I misplaced a decimal point, American crime rate is nearly five times the Canadian crime rate? Great, let's adopt their policies so we can beat them as the country with the highest percentage of incarcerated people. Need more prisons? No problem there, we have lots of political contributors who own construction companies, it's a win/win!

How is this arse bandit still in charge? Oh, election fraud. That's right

Although the bill is screw up, this video is too.

It explains the situation as if the prisoners themselves are going to get the money spent on prisons, not the prison capitalists. This is absurd. It's not like somebody locked up for a bullshit crime is getting rich here. Blame the 1%, the the people whose being is criminalized.
And on that note, the video never attempts to deconstruct the prison system in the first place and instead maintains a blame on the people in the cells, and not the system that forced them in there.

Yup. This was an invalid comparison. It's like saying that cancer research money benefits the cancer itself. If it costs $88,000 to keep a prisoner who needs to be behind bars behind bars, then that's money spent on protecting the public. The problem is when a skater kids go into prison and come out hardened, at our expense.>> ^tsquire1:

Although the bill is screw up, this video is too.
It explains the situation as if the prisoners themselves are going to get the money spent on prisons, not the prison capitalists. This is absurd. It's not like somebody locked up for a bullshit crime is getting rich here. Blame the 1%, the the people whose being is criminalized.
And on that note, the video never attempts to deconstruct the prison system in the first place and instead maintains a blame on the people in the cells, and not the system that forced them in there.

If you pay right wingers to lock people up (say 20k of that 88k is net profit) they will lock up EVERYONE they can.

That's the end of the logic. No need for further complication.

As a side note, if they make money by fighting wars, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE AT WAR.

(If you want peace, safe clean food, healthcare, sanity, child protection, education... Better not vote in psychotic demagogues who can make money by doing the opposite. Doh!)

>> ^messenger:

Yup. This was an invalid comparison. It's like saying that cancer research money benefits the cancer itself. If it costs $88,000 to keep a prisoner who needs to be behind bars behind bars, then that's money spent on protecting the public. The problem is when a skater kids go into prison and come out hardened, at our expense.>>

I did not get the same impression from this campy video. When they said $88,000/y goes to keeping an inmate in prison, I know it's not their puny wage. It's the cost of the corrections process, infrastructure and the like. I'm upvoting this video for making a valid statement, despite the oversimplification.

>> ^tsquire1:

Although the bill is screw up, this video is too.
It explains the situation as if the prisoners themselves are going to get the money spent on prisons, not the prison capitalists. This is absurd. It's not like somebody locked up for a bullshit crime is getting rich here. Blame the 1%, the the people whose being is criminalized.
And on that note, the video never attempts to deconstruct the prison system in the first place and instead maintains a blame on the people in the cells, and not the system that forced them in there.

Yay! More money for the corporations that run your prisons Canada! It's great back door slavery and a fantastic way to remove the minority vote. Trust me, we're the experts in all this stuff.

Wtf happened to Canada. As an american, let me tell you that you guys are looking more and more like us. Knock it off.

>> ^sme4r:

Wtf happened to Canada...

Conservatives.

Better not vote in Obama either. Lesser of two evils? He signed in indefinite detention, bombs Pakistani children with drones, kills United States citizens abroad.
The solution is to build political power from below

>> ^cosmovitelli:

If you pay right wingers to lock people up (say 20k of that 88k is net profit) they will lock up EVERYONE they can.
That's the end of the logic. No need for further complication.
As a side note, if they make money by fighting wars, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE AT WAR.
(If you want peace, safe clean food, healthcare, sanity, child protection, education... Better not vote in psychotic demagogues who can make money by doing the opposite. Doh!)