USA Prison System: Big Money for Congress & Corporate America

There is a quote that says, "Men fight for their freedom, yet when they get it, they immediately start passing laws to take it away again..."  AND...Who in this country gets elected and passes these laws?  ANSWER:  The CONGRESS, i.e., the WEALTHY and Corporate America.

A LARGE percentage of the American Penal System, glaringly biased against the poor and middle class, is run by Corporate America.  FACT:   The majority of our inmates are non-violent offenders that need help, not bars.   When counseling for mental health, drug rehabilitation, job training, education or other mandatory programs would turn their lives around, offenders become dollar marks in our penal system's bottom line.  Tossing them into a cage  doesn't cure anything but irreparably damages their lives, stacking the odds against them ever succeeding after getting out.

HOW CAN THAT BE?  Inmates in this country are simply caged and submitted to a LOT of inhumane treatment, i.e., In the beginning of their incarceration, not affording them proper representation in a timely manner because they are unaware of their rights, forcing addicts to go through detox with no medical attention, housing them in unairconditioned units where temperatures rise into the 120's or more, providing improper nutritional intake, using them as 'slave-labor' and strip and cavity searching them multiple times a day.  The list goes on and it's NOT RIGHT!!!!

Until our ELECTED OFFICIALS  start making the needs of the citizens of this country a priority over pleasing the Lobbyists and their lackeys, real issues like our jails will never be addressed. The ultra wealthy own Congress.  In most instances, they can BUY THEIR WAY OUT of this unbalanced legal system and profit off of it at the same time...