11 Stunning Facts About American Prison System

[Amotekun]

4 in 10 prisoners return to state prisons within three years of release

One in 30 men between 20 and 34 is behind bars -- and up to one in 13 in one state

One in nine black men between 20 and 34 are behind bars

734 out of every 100,000 people are behind bars in the U.S. -- far and away the highest number in the world

 

[Busta Carmichael]

came in here to see 11 facts, not to click a lank

 

[Meta_Conscious]

None of this is stunning... ppl just don't care to know...

 

[Amotekun]

Russia and South Africa are our nearest competitor

Understand the political context of such

Part of the bizarre prison black market, a thimbleful of tobacco can fetch up to $50 at a maximum security prison

Typically parole programs cost taxpayers $7.47 per day per parolee, while prisons cost $78.95 per day per inmate nationwide

Some prisoners cost more. It costs New Jersey $253 million every year to house just its death row prisoners -- $11 million apiece

Between 1987 and 2007 state prison costs rose by 315 percent to $44.06 billion a year

 

[a.mann]

why are these guys behind bars?

 

[Meta_Conscious]

why are these guys behind bars?

Nonviolent drug offenses and such..

 

[Amotekun]

A majority most likely for non violent offenses e;g drug possession charges or firearm possession charges.

 

[Ajackson17]

You didn't know about this? The big business of the Prison system is disgusting, it's modern day slavery.

 

[Black Boy King]

pray i aint never gotta be caged like an animal.. glad i've gotten my anger in check.

 

[Amotekun]

You didn't know about this? The big business of the Prison system is disgusting, it's modern day slavery.

We all "know" about this but we need to be up on facts and figures and not just conjecture and

"common knowledge"

 

[Reggie80]

Corrections is on the nystock exchange it's all a business contractors milk the state for jobs and the inmates do all the work. C.O. milk the states making close too 100 grand a year for being babysitters.

One of them told me once I work here too watch my investment and it was a known fact she was a millionaire,and could of been retired it's all money.especially here in new york state!

 

[Amotekun]

Corrections is on the nystock exchange it's all a business contractors milk the state for jobs and the inmates do all the work. C.O. milk the states making close too 100 grand a year for being babysitters.

One of them told me once I work here too watch my investment and it was a known fact she was a millionaire,and could of been retired it's all money.especially here in new york state!

This is no different from the past...African kidnapped peoples were the first stocks to be traded...the first cargo that jump started the insurance company.

 

[VIBE]

This thread grabbed playmakers attention quick, dude said, "wait, stunning and prison! My kind of thread!"

 

[jono]

This is the bane of Black America's existence.

There is no other social institution that harms black folks more than the prison system. That system doesn't give a damn whether you have 1 parent or 2 parents, doesn't care if you have kids, doesn't care whether you can read or count, it just doesn't care about anything other than whether you can afford a (good) lawyer to beat it.

It created a cycle, Michelle Alexander called it a racial caste system, I'm inclined to agree. It holds Blacks in place and feeds into the stereotype of black criminalism. The effects of the criminal justice system aren't just about being in prison, its about the effort it takes not to go to prison and how hard it is to live your life after you get out of prison.

 

[Amotekun]

Truth of the matter is.....

The United States is a government that has created an expansive system of laws and codes so rigid

it is difficult for any man woman or child to be law biding.

The second truth of this matter is that penal codes in this nation are used in a manner to keep Black people

in a state of perpetual criminalization whether in bars or on the streets...even when we are not behind bars

we are still prisoners subject to arbitrary detainment harassment and various abuses including arrest and murder

by sworn officers of the law.

 

[LUClEN]

step 1: abolish slavery

step 2: segregate ex-slaves to ghettos

step 3: flood ghettos with drugs

step 4: create laws that punish drug offenders and black offenders more harshly

step 5: privatize prisons

step 6: have inmates work for free within prisons

step 7: watch 21st century slavery go undetected

 

[whitecracker]

12. Everyone gets anally raped at some point

 

[PK_TK_187]

12. Everyone gets anally raped at some point

i find this hard to believe

 

[Amotekun]

america, #1 in people in prison and war spending, nearly dead last in education. don't these types of fact just make you so proud

It doesnt surprise me that a nation founded in blood and oath breaking is in this position.....

United States is nothing but an expansive POW camp.

 

[Nubian11]

The realest rapper ever,stated that prison systems is big business circa 95 Tupac: The Lost Prison Tapes should take time to watched it. i total agree with below

RodrigueZz Posts: 3,903

6:08PM

step 1: abolish slavery

step 2: segregate ex-slaves to ghettos

step 3: flood ghettos with drugs

step 4: create laws that punish drug offenders and black offenders more harshly

step 5: privatize prisons

step 6: have inmates work for free within prisons

step 7: watch 21st century slavery go undetected