Still a plantation: American slave labor booming

  I used to think that the privatization of prisons was limited to the obvious,,,profits skimmed from the taxpayer money used to house and maintain prisoners, Now, it is quite obvious that they were building a workforce. Chairman Mao wrote that his model for genocide was taken from america's genocide of the native Americans,,,,I guess now we are using one of his ideas too!

Horrifying! Thanks for bringing this to light. What really gets me mad is all the people out there trying to avoid slave labor by buying the "Made in America" label. Can you just imagine that the companies using American prison labor are labeling their products that way? I'm going to spread this video around.

Wendy

Hi guys, a guy at work and I were talking about this last week, its mind blowing.....I work in the commercial furniture industry, I believe in the US its 70% prison labor!....white goods like 90%.......

And I think that having something to do is better than nothing.....I think it is 80,000...that is the number of US prisoners in solitary confinement.....must be the cheapest way to house them...14, 15 years straight....sick!

   I agree, that it must be good to have something to do in prison. But,,when I was a kid here, they use to have prisoners clean along highways,,,,and repair and repaint bridges...I use to hang with them while I was fishing as a kid. We used to climb the trees and knock down coconuts.Then they would help us crack them open , and we would share them with them. One even saved me once. I was riding my bike over a drawbridge, and it started to go up. I guess they didn't see me. This huge black man ran out there and picked up me and my bike, lifting me across the gap in the bridge,,haha! I shared alot of coconuts with him.....point is,,,now,,instead of having them work on useful jobs,,,they have them producing consumer goods for huge profits,,,at taxpayer expense.