On the Correctional Faculty: Part I

the megajails are coming & with them, the richest country in the world which without any irony whatsoever, continues to lock up the largest percentage of its own citizens in the world & then throws away the key, hoping to never hear from the incarcerated again--- as the population of prisoners in this country swells, revenue increases, brought in by the building of prisons & the stockpiling of inmates--- and at present, most stand with hands supposedly tied, watching the wicked weave their web. in 2007 alone, “the bureau of prisons budgeted $5 billion dollars for 182,000 federal inmates”--- that is well below the proposed $30+ billion that is spent a year on prisons in the US, and so there is a “prison market,” one in which private companies to sink their teeth into everything from the need for cells ($14,000-$18,000 a piece) to modernized & specialized security devices ($1.5 billion dollar market) & if you are really interested, you have the moola, and you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, you can attend the annual American Correctional Association convention (the next one is in january, the 20th-25th in phoenix, arizona) where every new gadget to make imprisoning people in this country easier & more profitable for those interested can be viewed, tried out, etc.--- it is like an electronics convention for oppressors.