Human Rights Crisis, The Prison Industrial Complex In America

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By Wesman Todd Shaw

The USA - The Highest Incarceration Rate In The Entire World

It is impossible for a nation to incarcerate such a percentage of it's own population, and to then present itself to the Earth as the Leader Of The Free World.
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It is impossible for a nation to incarcerate such a percentage of it's own population, and to then present itself to the Earth as the Leader Of The Free World.

The Prison Industrial Complex

The completely, and systematic corrupt capitalism in the United States of America, and the unrestrained greed of the capitalist, and their never satisfied lusts for more profit, more control; and less freedom for the "subjects" that still call themselves "citizens" in the fear induced, dumbed down, mass media controlled police state USA, has revealed itself in exciting new, and hideously ugly ways.

We've a private prison industry here in the United States of America. Let me explain this situation to you: Big business men and women, and stock holders, obsessed with their worship of Mammon and fiat debt based currency, build a private prison at a profit, they then take those profits, give them to lobbyist and media moguls, who then simultaneously incite fear in the idiot sheep that you call "friends and neighbors," while at the same time using that fear and lobbyist money to push for tougher laws on crime. All the while big pharma creates methamphetamine epidemics, and the C.I.A. imports cocaine to South Central Los Angeles. Do you see a conflict of interest in big business and human rights yet?

If you don't, then Glenn Beck is on television somewhere, I hear him calling YOUR name.

United Prison States Of America

Dick Cheney, Harvester Of Sorrow.

Drug War, War On Terrorism.

Richard Nixon, a criminal P.O.T.U.S. pseudo Christian fascist had the brilliant idea to declare "war on drugs," truly, that IS a brilliant idea, but only if you are a corporate fascist whore. You see, you can not win a war that doesn't have a definable human enemy, and there was never any plans of winning a war on inanimate substances. Its a tribute to human stupidity and human greed that the war on drugs was called such, as it was, and is, and always has been a war on the American Citizen.

Nixon is dead and gone, he's Hitler's alternate in Satan's bedfellow regimen in Hell now, and so, things aren't always so cut and dried; but another G.O.P. pseudo Christian has been in office, and he had a daddy in the P.O.T.U.S. office too! But "W" wasn't the brains or the biggest recipient of profit in that administration, oh no, Dick Cheney was; and Dick Cheney makes profit from Private Prison slave labourers who work for ten to thirty cents an hours grinding out trinkets for Ramen noodles in his prisons that were built for continued profit, and that profit then, as capitalism is based in "economic growth," was spent to create tougher laws, so more persons could be warehoused, and then, more "need" for more prisons exist; as the new laws, and tougher sentences demand it.

Harvester Of Sorrow - Dick Cheney Has Become MORE Wealthy By Profiting From The Increased Misery Of The Poor.

War Pig.

So, the links up above prove that, and convict Dick Cheney of crimes against Humanity. He only profits from the death, murder, and subjugation of brown skinned persons far away. He also profits from corruption, and enslavement of poor persons and the mentally ill here in police state USA - participates in the creation and sale of fear mongering for the purpose of destroying the liberties and freedoms that Citizens once enjoyed due to the protective and foundational documents of this nation, the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and the United States Constitution.

He'd prolly complain from being sentenced to hang from a brand new rope though, such is the case of silver spoon babies and capitalist pigs everywhere. Richard Nixon, alas, already roasts on a spit in Hell.

Capitalism Is Cancerous To The Human Race.

It is a simple truth, or rather, an aphorism, to say that at a certain point in time, should you live long enough; then nothing will continue to grow in or on your human body. . .except cancer. Then, you will inevitably die. The Earth is analogous to a human body, and human beings, and all life forms, analogous to cells on that human body, the Earth, and it's resources the materials used by the cells, or life forms; and also the wastes produced by the life forms. After so much time, the Earth, and the life forms, or cells, become the cancer cells, growing, destroying, imploding the organism, planet Earth.

Capitalism is one of those cancers; and truly, this Earth has many cancers now. From here forward, pick your own analogy to describe it. With capitalism, the goal is to produce, to consume, to make the economy "grow," but the economy can not grow continuously; in fact, the greater the Gross Domestic Product of a given nation, the greater that nation's level of "cancer." Solving problems is big business; creating problems is even better business. Order Out Of Chaos, it's on the back of your criminal currency; and you've become so accustomed to that currency, that you not only don't realize that it's there, you no longer understand that it is all, each and every federal reserve note, based on debt.

Judges, Lawyers, Cops. . .are all cancerous cells in the Capitalist system, for they cast value judgements upon the victims of sub cultures; Nazis were brought up into cultures where Ashkenazi Jews were taught to them from their birth on up to be. . .subhuman, undeserving of life, Nazis are victims of their cultures. Drug users, the largest group of persons making up the prison population, are most often victims of economic circumstances; and so, the real criminals are those who have them incarcerated at a profit for big businessmen in far away offices. Value judgements have been cast by the businessmen, and those values all are this: my increase is worth more to me than anything that the rest of you could possibly offer.

But those big businessmen too, are victims of a culture, are they not? We can't just condemn them, can we? Of course we can't. Big capitalistic and parasitic businessmen were brought up in a culture where the ultimate expression of value was the American Dollar. Who's to blame?

"For The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil."

Human Rights Abuses in American Prisons


Dear Friend,


At long last, yesterday the Department of Justice launched its 60-day public comment period on proposed national standards addressing sexual abuse in detention. In an extensive report, the Department also released, for the first time, its own estimate of the number of inmates who endured sexual abuse while behind bars in a one-year period: TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED.

That's right: TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED. . This number is a devastating confirmation of what JDI has claimed for years -- sexual abuse in U.S. detention is a horrific, nationwide human rights crisis.

Let's put TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED in perspective: almost 600 prisoners a day are subjected to rape and other forms of sexual abuse while in the government's care. Or, put differently, 25 inmates are abused every hour of every day. That number reflects only the first time each person was victimized during a one-year period; the number of incidents of sexual abuse is several times higher, as many inmates are assaulted again and again. Prisoner rape survivors continue to be locked up with their assailants, unable to escape -- forced to live in constant fear of another attack, their trauma renewed every time they see their abusers. These are our fellow human beings, men, women, and children who one day will return home to their families and communities.

Washington, DC, January 26, 2011. According to a study released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), even in substantiated cases of staff sexually abusing inmates, only half of the abusive officials were subject to any legal action. Indeed, 15 percent of confirmed staff abusers were allowed to keep their jobs. Such high levels of impunity are shocking considering that every state has a law criminalizing sexual contact between officials and inmates.

"By failing to take serious action against abusive staff, prisons and jails across the country are tacitly approving of these crimes -- a message lost on no one within these facilities. We are talking about reported and substantiated incidents of abuse by the very people who are supposed to keep inmates safe and whose salaries are paid by the taxpayers," said Lovisa Stannow, Executive Director of Just Detention International.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

The only candle in the dark I've found on this issue is the LEAP organization, and organization of law enforcement officers against the failed, and socially cancerous prohibition in America.  It is better to fall upon your own sword than to aide and abet the enemy; for aiding and abetting the enemy is, in fact, treason.

Prison Song

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lightning john 16 months ago

I actually heard of an interview of some mad townspeople in a town in upstate New York complaining that the crime rate was going down and it was bad for the economy in thier town, because prison work is the main employment there. The fact that most incarcerations are for stupid weed posession is really twisted in my view. I do not smoke weed, but if I want to, I think that should be my right as a human, just as drinking a glass of wine.

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 16 months ago

What a bunch of lazy, sorry, immoral individuals that town must have! Man, I'd love to converse with those persons, "So Really, Mr.Smith, your paychecks are more important than the lives of the poor? Please go on, tell me how you feel about the poor. Yes, go ahead, you were saying?????"

uncle jailbird 16 months ago

regarding prison rape, its largely impossible to get john q public ginned up about it. the majority view is that..."well, don't do the time if you can't do the crime". of course, what they forget is that these violated men usually are released back into society.

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 16 months ago

Exactly, the other major mistake is that people assume that they are getting raped by inmates; but more often than not, it's sadistic "public servants,". . . .prison guards.

Reb 16 months ago

Private prison corporations deliberately target small towns and boy do they have quite the sales pitch. More jobs, more taxes, other businesses will follow...like uh...a couple of cheap motels and a few fast food joints to service the families that have to drive 200 miles to come for a visit.

Prisons are a necessity and by no means should criminals get soft treatment but bringing profit into the equation of rehabilitation has led to warehousing people for the lowest cost possible. That means that no only do prisoners not get rehabilitated and suffer but the community does as well because these mega-corporations do not circulate their profit back into these small rural towns. And where are convicts released? Usually right near the prison they are let out which places even more of an undue burden on the local tax payers which are then forced to offer more low-income housing, more community assistance programs, etc. Money spent on those things is money then not spent on education. Lower education = higher incarceration and so the circle will begin in whatever piss poor town the corporations can sell their BS to.

As for prison rape? Not only are men (and women) violated, there is the public health issue of the spread of HIV and Hep-C. People better damn well better start caring about the issue in terms of what it is going to cost this country in the long run if we don't at least attempt to keep the spread of diseases under control.

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A M Werner Level 4 Commenter 16 months ago

WTS, you need to stop being so shy about speaking the truth - just let it out, man. All humor aside - great hub. I remember researching some of that Vanguard Group stuff and probably have some notes on it somewhere. People who wonder about all this illegal immigrant uproar need look no further for an answer. To criminalize migration creates a market for prisons and law enforcement on a whole new scale. And by using the World Bank and IMF as co-conspirators, they can keep South and Central America in desperate straits, thus supplying the U.S. with a continuous stream of future inmates. Making money and finding new markets in which to prosper is the whole theme of capitalism. Many who still embrace the sacred purity of capitalistic belief turn a blind eye to the powerbrokers and elitist who don't mind using, abusing, and exploiting human life to meet their financial aims. America's foundation is one of genocide and slavery and the hereditary disease has matured in these latter generations. The very fact that prisoners can operate inside prisons as if they were still in the streets, gangbanging and dividing themselves by colors, turf and races behind the walls, abusing, raping and killing one another, shows the inhumanity operating in these places. All they are is contained war zones. Peace

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 16 months ago

Hey Reb, you're analysis of that is awesome! A case study of a particular town would be an amazing piece of work!!!!!!!!!

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 16 months ago

. . .. .and all war zones are profitable zones controlled by capitalist war pigs.

It took a while, A.M., but I'm slowly becoming less shy. :=\

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Micky Dee Level 4 Commenter 16 months ago

Absolutely AMEN! Hallelujah! It's God's truth here! Amen! Amen! America cannot get up off its knees to money to care.

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 16 months ago

Yep, the way to make the economy grow is to introduce more drugs, create more laws; and then build more prisons, and hire more cops. Welcome to America.

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joe322 Level 1 Commenter 8 months ago

great! I've studied the topic some out of personal interest but good job for bringing it to public light. The public has truly been brainwashed by the mainstream media into believing things, and having whole belief systems themselves that are so false it's truly amazing. I would myself better promote public edcuation in this specific field, but instead I am forced to sit on the sidelines behind the scenes due to the nature of my other work and having to retain my ultraconservative businessman image in order to work on more prioritized projects. The world with light is capable of illumination and someone needs to come fourth bearing that light.

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 8 months ago

Thanks Joe! I can't figure out if I do more candle lighting or cursing the darkness.

I think I'll watch more South Park today, and have a laugh.

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fpherj48 Level 8 Commenter 7 months ago

Wes...I need to confess. You are the only hubber whose works I read all the way through, not once, but twice. I go to all the links, watch all the videos and go back to read your hub through AGAIN. Sometimes, it's because I like it so much. Often, because I "think" I must have read it incorrectly (when I have a tough time knowing it's not "FICTION").....other times, it's that there is SO much factual info, my old brain needs a 2nd look. Most of all, when I'm finally done, with many of your hubs, I am truly humbled. To learn of all the atrocities rampant in this world (in our own country) while I go blindly on with my life, thinking the issues in my own little corner, require my time and attention....What am I thinking? I need a good swift kick in the butt. Normally, I might say, "Hey, RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!" LOL....BUT IN YOUR CASE....I'll just say Thank you for your wake-up calls. It's never too late to learn.

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 7 months ago

Hey thank you!

Because I'm single, unemployed, and don't have kids - it's easy to spend half my day being bothered by things that other people don't have time to be bothered with.

Over the years socializing on the internet - I wound up with a lot of friends who are similar to me but have different areas that they study or focus on - and so I learn a lot from my friends online. I don't think I'm so smart, but I will take credit for knowing who all is smart; and so I try to always have lots of online friends that are making me think about new things.

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