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Prisons: Slave Labor Factories

By Rick Stanley

be doing, and was transferred to the school desk manufacturing division. The prison makes around fifty cents an hour and the prisoners around twenty five cents per hour. In both cases before the products leave the prisons they are stamped, "made in China". Welcome to China USA.

The other information is that in a recent communication sent to Transcor, the infamous diesel therapy company, I received a reply from the legal division of Corrections Corporation of America. I have been told, and I have not researched it myself, that Corrections Corporation of America is owned by attorneys. The BAR, the British Accredited Registry, originates out of England, and may go back further, straight to the Jesuits, who it is rumored own the prisons and the banks. How convenient. I'd recommend "Rulers of Evil" by F Tupper Saussy for background on the Jesuits. I found it on Amazon used books.

We ought to pay attention to the words left out of the 'catch phrases'

The War on Terror.............should be The War on Terrorizing the American People

The War on Drugs............should be The War on Not Enough Drugs......those prisons need

to be filled up with cheap labor

The War on Poverty........should be The War on Putting More Americans into Poverty......and on and on..............

Take care, Lynn

Prisons: Slave Labor Factories

by Rick Stanley:

History teaches us that slavery was abolished in the United States after the Civil War. History has taught us wrong. Slavery was never abolished in the United States. Go ahead, take a look at the Constitution. The 13th Amendment reads as follows: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States." That means that if you've been convicted of a crime, you are legally allowed to be a slave.

The prison industrial complex is big business in this country, and the U.S. government and corporations are reaping the rewards. Private companies are not only operating prisons but are also using prisoners as workers without paying wages, a practice known as slavery. The largest private prison operator is called Correction Corporations of America; it operates over 30 prisons nationwide (a number that will soon double when every state prison in Tennessee goes private). Prison bonds provide a lucrative return for capitalist investors.

The following are just a fraction of the companies using slave labor: IBM, Motorola, Compaq, Texas Instruments, Honeywell, Microsoft, Boeing, Revlon, Chevron, TWA, Victoria's Secret, Eddie Bauer, K-mart, J.C. Penny, and McDonald's.

Products bought by the U.S government are bought from UNICOR, which is the trade name for Federal Prisons Industries. Yes, prisoners even build desks for members of Congress. UNICOR proudly displays on its web site that it is "where the government shops first." This isn't about making the streets safe; it's about money and a never-ending supply of cheap labor.

State corrections agencies are advertising their prisoners to the corporations: "Are you experiencing high employee turnover? Worried about the costs of employee benefits? Unhappy with out-of-state or offshore suppliers? Getting hit by overseas competition? Having trouble motivating your workforce? Thinking about expansion space? Then Washington State Department of Corrections Private Sector Partnerships is for you."

When Reagan became president, there were 400,000 prisoners in the United States. Today the number stands at over 2 million. Before you start thinking about those "violent" people, listen to some facts: In federal prisons, only 2.4 percent of the prisoners are there for violent crimes. It took 150 years for California to build 10 state prisons. But the state has built 21 prisons in the last 10 years alone (only one state university has been built in that time) and this trend isn't stopping. With the three strikes law in effect the state estimates it will have to build 20 more prisons over the next 10 years.

Where does racism come into view? Seventy percent of those being sentenced under the three strikes law in California are people of color. And nationally, 39 percent of African American men in their 20s are in prison, on probation, or on parole. White people make up 82 percent of the nation's population, yet prisons house 72 percent people of color. What we need to do is wake up and realize that there aren't 2 million people in prison to "make the country safe." They're there to provide a service their labor. Let's call them what they are: slaves.

STANLEY NOTE: See you inside. You don't think it will ever happen to you. You keep thinking that... Keep those blinders on, the rose colored glasses. You think you can stay under the radar. You can for a while, until they have destroyed everything you hold dear, because you were afraid to speak out. But hey, you are a survivor and your cowardice will ensure that you survive. Enjoy your slavery. Failure to act is showing you the door to deeper slavery in the fascist Police State of America. Slaves with nice things. Ain't life grand?

Wonder how much longer this illusion will hold up... Check out the speech I gave a while back. Perhaps it will change your opinion of the benevolent nanny state. Naw, probably not...

http://www.stanley2002.org/Audios/stanley-02-20-05.mp3

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