White Towns Make Money Off Black, Brown Crime

Here is an article that will make you want to throw up. A Newsweek article illustrates the tie between rural towns and prisons. According to Newsweek writer Ben Adler, many rural New York towns, depend on the prison industrial complex to drive their economies. Many of these towns have seen their economies dry up as manufacturing plants closed and young people moved away.

Adler says that the New York Department of Corrections pays about $1 million a year in payroll to rural towns which house prisons. What is even more disturbing is the fact that many politicians are pushing for longer and harsher sentences. Of course, if a prison is the main industry in your district, you would have a vested interest in keeping people in the prison system longer.

There is also a racial element to this story, because blacks and Latinos make up about 75 percent of the New York prison population, and many of these towns are located in mainly white communities. So it's seems that white people are still making money off black and brown bondage. I though we outlawed slavery?

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/01/do-rural-prisons-benefit-locals.html?from=rss