#privatizedprisons

Locking up the Flock and Throwing Away the Keys

With this war waged on anyone involved in the drug scene, came a way for entrepreneur types to capitalize of the mass increase in incarceration rates;

More and more people were being locked up for drug related crimes;

State and federal prisons could no longer support the massive influx of new prisoners doing more and more time.

Prison conditions became worse and worse;

More and more crowded;

Heavily overpopulated, this is a fact no one doubted;

There was no longer enough space to house all the incoming inmates in a humane way.

 This birthed the industry of privatized prisons which the government welcomed with open arms.

Profiting off of caging a human being as if they were a vicious beast should raise much alarm.

Filling the pockets of the owners of these private prisons;

Lining their pockets with profits acquired by stripping individuals of their freedoms;

Feeding this corporate machine, catering to corporate interests, instead of protecting their own citizens;

I think we should all take a moment to stop and think.

Aren't you just the least bit curious why so many nonviolent offenders reside in penitentiaries instead of rehabilitation facilities?

Is this just another form of procrastination?

Locking them up in jail just so they can continue using as soon as they got out because they haven't effectively learned how to abandon their addiction;

They instead sat in a cell being unproductive, somber, and ever so lonely and want even more to continue their self destructive afflictions?

Turning them to drugs even more;

Is not a major problem that the government is refusing to provide an adequate alternative for?

Is the viable solution the government came up with as a solution really to gather them up like a pin full of chickens in a factory farm?

Forget about them and throw them behind bars;

Give them only the basic necessities;

Lock them up, throw away the key, and forget they ever even existed in the first place.

Throw them into crowded jails or isolation wards and call it rehabilitation?

Is it better to punish them instead of treat their illness, their drug infatuation?

With more and more prisoners than the rest of the world combined;