PRIVATIZATION = MASSIVE SCAMS = EXAMPLE = PRISONS DEPEND ON SLAVE LABOR

California: If We Empty The Prisons, We Lose Our Cheap Labor by Susie Madrak November 18, 2014

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A three-judge federal panel ordered California to expand an early parole program.

PRIVATIZATION = What we get when we run (and fund) previously public institutions as for-profit entities = Creates A MONSTER with some really twisted incentives that FUND TAX CUTS FOR THE SUPER-RICH CROOKS, BY stripping public funding to a minimum:

Out of California’s years-long litigation over reducing the population of prisons deemed unconstitutionally overcrowded by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, another obstacle to addressing the U.S. epidemic of mass incarceration has emerged: The utility of cheap prison SLAVE labor.

In recent filings, lawyers for the state have resisted court orders that they expand parole programs, reasoning not that releasing inmates early is logistically impossible or would threaten public safety, but instead that prisons won’t have enough minimum security inmates left to perform inmate jobs – CHEAP SLAVE LABOR.

The debate culminated Friday, when a three-judge federal panel ordered California to expand an early parole program. California now has no choice but to broaden a program known as 2-for-1 credits that gives inmates who meet certain milestones the opportunity to have their sentences reduced.

California’s objections raise troubling questions about whether prison SLAVE labor creates perverse incentives to keep inmates in prison even when they don’t need to be there.