Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
By Chris
I first read this story a day or so after listening to an old episode of Citizen Radio where Jaime and Allison visited a prison set up to incarcerate immigrants coming into Australia. I recommend checking out the show to get an understanding of this story on a more personal level. It mirrors this story in horrifying detail.
Just think about it for a minute, I mean really let it sink in okay. Private FOR-PROFIT companies setting up jails to hold indefinitely, people who have committed no crimes. People trying to escape rampant drug violence, poverty beyond a level of our comprehension and despair (all exacerbated by US government policies). Private companies writing and dictating laws to states all to gain profit in the most insidious way. Imagine it, you bringing your terrified family north in the hopes of trying to scratch out a better life only to be jailed, not because you are a criminal, not by the state you entered but by a company so they can make a buck off of your captivity.
The Prison-Industrial complex in America is one of the most evil institutions ever loosed upon the earth. This article is a good place to start http://m.npr.org/story/130833741 afterwards I would suggest checking out a couple sites Break The Chains, The Jericho Movement & the Anarchist Black Cross.
There are political prisoners in the United States and make no mistake these families that AZ wants to detain for private profits are POLITICAL PRISONERS! More victims of the Class War.
Death to the prison system!
