2/18/09

Privatised Prisons \ Prison Industrial Complex



Hip Hop & Politics: Privatisation of Prisons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9IrJ7W6JA

"Under Three Strikes" Pt 1

An in-depth look at California's three strikes law and it's unintended consequences. Pt 1 of 8




Just as in those heady post-war days, Europe’s political elites, bosses and opinion-formers are looking to the United States with fascination and envy, largely because of the performance of the US economy. Allegedly, the key to US prosperity and the supposed solution to mass unemployment is simple: less intervention by the state. It is true that the United States - and in its wake, the United Kingdom and New Zealand - has slashed social welfare spending and pared down the rules on hiring and - above all - firing so as to establish "flexible" working as the norm in relation to employment and indeed citizenship. It is easy for advocates of neoliberal policies that involve stifling the welfare state to claim that introducing "flexibility" has stimulated an increase in wealth and job creation, but they are more reticent about discussing the consequences of wage dumping: in this instance widespread social and physical insecurity and a spiralling in inequality leading to segregation, crime and the decay of public institutions.

FROM WELFARE STATE TO PRISON STATE Imprisoning the American poor






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