Date: 10/1/2019 11:26:01 AM

"THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF AMERICA'S PRISONS"
By Ronald W. Clark Jr
Sitting here in this cell looking out over the compound at North Florida Reception Medical Center, makes me think about the thousands of men and women who are incarcerated in these 21st century slave plantations. And really that's all this is is an industrialized slave plantation. I've read all these statistics about how America has the largest number of citizens incarcerated per capita. You've got country's larger than us, yet with a much smaller prison population. So why is that? Is it possibly because we've industrialized this prison system, to where warehousing poor men and women is just more profitable than rehabilitation? That does seem to be the case. Obviously there's something wrong with this system that continues to be a revolving door where men and women are hurdled through like cattle, and the rich people playing these stocks are the only ones benefitting from the lack of rehabilitation and over expansion of incarceration. This isn't a problem that's evolved overnight. This is an issue that's been growing and expanding every single year for decades. And the benefit is the prison industry has exploded!!!
We've got a serious problem here! And someone needs to act on it. Cause the system we have, well it doesn't work. And everyone can see that its broke. But lawmakers will only through a bandaid on the problem when it comes before the legislature. Because they're not looking for a permanent fix. They want this to hemorrhage Why? The most obvious reason is they've got an invested interest in this system staying broke. I think they deflect from that with "Hard on crime campaigns". But I'm starting to think there's some hidden agenda stock options in these prison corporations. We've seen in the past sitting Judges sentencing juveniles to boot camps, and the undercover investigation revealed that the Judge was getting kickbacks from the private company that was running it. So its not a stretch of the imagination for one or many of these prison industry corporations to be in the pocket of our Senators or House Representatives. When they start voting against bills, we need to ask ourselves and them. Why are they motivated to incarcerate and not rehabilitate? This is something that our local media may want to further dig into. Because its obvious we've got a major problem, that no one wants so solve. God bless you. And continue to fight the good fight for prison reform. One step at a time.
Sincerely Ronald W. Clark Jr. #812974
October 1, 2019