Cleverly worded ALEC sponsored bills" Prison Industries Enhancement Certification" $$$$ For corp.

[midnight]

Through cleverly worded ALEC sponsored bills, namely the Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program and the Prison Industries Act, state, federal and private prisons can use prisoners to labor in many different jobs to bring in more money to support the prison and, in the case of private prisons, to increase the corporation’s bottom line.

Companies hiring prison labor through this ALEC-created legislation pay minimum wage but the prisons deduct large portions of these wages for not only incarceration costs, but to go towards profits and building new prisons while they often give the prisoners just pennies per hour for their work.

This, coupled with other prison-friendly ALEC legislation such as Arizona’s immigration law, SB1070, the “Three Strikes” laws as well as the infamous “War on Drugs,” increases incarceration rates so as to guarantee a large involuntary “workforce.” Along with a push by right wing governors like Scott Walker of Wisconsin to demolish union held public sector jobs and replace them with prison labor, we’re seeing a very ominous turn of events happening:

It’s known as the Prison Industrial Complex and it’s a multi-billion dollar industry.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/12/08/slavery-alive-and-well-in-the-us-sponsored-by-alec/

[Judi Lynn]

1. A new path right back to slavery. Absolutely evil. Thank you. n/t