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the empire files-the biggest prison system in history

submitted by enoch

9 years 3 months ago

The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of conditions in America's prisons, who is warehoused in them, and how things got this way.

Featuring interviews with Eddie Conway, former political prisoner unjustly incarcerated for 44 years, and Eugene Puryear, author of "Shackled and Chained, Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America."

henry giroux's social critique of this situation:
http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~ganterg/sjureview/vol2-1/authoritarianism.html

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lurgee.

Murica! Fuck Yeah!

It really is only a limited time before we turn a city or state into a prison; I think Escape from Detroit might become a real sequel.

Moving this video to enoch's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Reality is scarier than any book, TV, or movie.

And no one stands up or does anything about it!
All due respect, but the US has become the biggest cesspool of abuse and slavery in the world. The Government uses the people and controls them. The leaders treat everyone as tools to suck wealth out of and then dispose of them when they see fit.

I'm saddened by this incredible system of control, human right's abuses, and degradation of an entire society, for the profits of the 1% -- and no one in the US will stand up for themselves - in fact, people are so brain washed, that they stand up and defend the systems of abuse that keep them confines and abused.

BSR

Wrong hopeless breath. You just need to join the other government. The one on the west coast.

A very wise man once said to me, "You need to exercise your imagination."

Reality is scarier than any book, TV, or movie.

And no one stands up or does anything about it!

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