SERIES II WEEK 2, Episode 4 FACTS, COMMENTARY, RECAP

SERIES II

WEEK 2, Episode 4

FACTS, COMMENTARY, RECAP

Prison:  TOO BIG TO FAIL

     We heard this phrase repeatedly when the banking system caused the last

recession after inflating mortgages into improper investment vehicles.  The system

is still recovering.  It is public knowledge that the United States Justice System

spends over 80 billion dollars a year to house inmates all over the country. 

  There are many benefactors.

  The food we eat comes from companies like Sysco, and lots of other large vendors.

The feds do not deal with small vendors.  I am not sure if the state does or not.

Then we have the produce providers.  Then all of the cosmetics that are marked

up for inmates to purchase, and the place to make a profit.  Then we have the

uniforms, mattresses, and other commissary items that are big tickets. Then

we have the pharmaceutical companies, providing only their types of meds to

inmates.  The phone companies experience billions of dollars from inmate calls.

The layers of profits from inmates being incarcerated is like peeling an onion.

It is very hard to get to the core. 

     The All-Drugs-Minus-Two went retroactive, and over 46,000 inmates are eligible

for release by next year.  That is a fourth of the federal prison population, and will

definitely eliminate a lot of overcrowding.  The reason why Congress did not pass

the good time bill, or any other initiatives because they stated publicly that with

so many releases pending, they did not want to create a mechanism for even more

releases.  The question is why not? 

     What would happen if the prison system experienced an emergency shut down?

All of the small towns that rely on prisons for employment and business attached

to their tax base would be wiped out instantly.  The large food companies would

take a major hit, and their stocks would plummet.  The phone companies would

take a major financial hit, and many of the smaller phone companies that were

set up to rape inmates and their families out of their cash would instantly go out

of business.  The people that would benefit most would be the taxpayers.

They are footing the large bill for the prison system. 

Imagine Dumping 80 billion dollars a year BACK into the economy, instead of just

a small percentage of wealthy individuals reaping the benefits of this cash cow. 

    The United States prison systems as it stands is really too big to fail, and

that is why they keep locking more and more Americans up for laws that don't

even exist in most countries(like conspiracy in America). 

That is the reality.

Rhonda Turpin

July 24, 2014

Danbury Camp

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