Comments on: Oz http://www.viren.ca/blog/oz/ It is a fallacy to state that something exists just because it can't be proven that it doesn't Tue, 14 May 2013 01:49:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Viren http://www.viren.ca/blog/oz/comment-page-1/#comment-39297 Viren Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:55:39 +0000 http://www.viren.ca/blog/?p=537#comment-39297 Yep, I agree wholeheartedly. It’s a sad state of affairs.

]]> By: PhilB http://www.viren.ca/blog/oz/comment-page-1/#comment-39296 PhilB Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:21:07 +0000 http://www.viren.ca/blog/?p=537#comment-39296 It gets even more interesting when you realize that many prisons are privatized in the US, and also use inmates as basically slave-labour (look up UNICOR).

Also, the size of the constituency of a politician affects his funding. If you have a large prison in your county, those are your “constituents”, and you therefore get funding based on that. If it happens to be a Federal prison, those “constituents” of yours are felons, and thus cannot vote.

Basically, it’s in lots of people’s best interest to keep as many people incarcerated as possible. And that’s without mentioning the DEA, ATF, the DA, and so many other organization that justify their salaries based on convictions and the “War on Drugs” (don’t get me started on that one).

Phil

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