The First Four Black Sabbath Albums: Did anyone ever figure out what those Occupy Wall Street goofs were upset about?

Republicans are eying them as perfect laborers; once they get incarcerated.

wanna know why cannabis will never be legal? there ya go...non-violent drug offenses carry heavy prison terms and provide a cheap labor pool for our corporate masters.

Can I get your credit card number, please?

/I'll also need the expiration date and the security code
//trust me

Okay.

For those of you who haven't figured it out yet, the only way to make a company NOT do something profitable, but harmful to society, is to make that thing ILLEGAL.

And then you have to CONSTANTLY CHECK AND RE-CHECK to make sure they aren't farking doing it anyway.

Ahhhhhh slave labor.

Ohhhh, shiat. Let the good times roll.

miss diminutive: [freemasonry.bcy.ca image 640x487]

Knows all about having a cheap pool of labour.

/hot like a fart in the wind


I came here for that reference, and I leave satisfied.

I don't know. The whole 50 cents thing I have a hard time with, but I'd rather inmatess get training in a real job setting rather than non-skilled busywork like cleaning toilets.

downstairs: I don't know. The whole 50 cents thing I have a hard time with, but I'd rather inmatess get training in a real job setting rather than non-skilled busywork like cleaning toilets.

Whatever would you want skilled slaves for? We have grad students for that.

OZ did it

Weaver95: wanna know why cannabis will never be legal? there ya go...non-violent drug offenses carry heavy prison terms and provide a cheap labor pool for our corporate masters.

Your paranoia is an inspiration to the legalize marijuana movement.

Makes almost as much sense as forcing beneficiaries of unemployment insurance to "volunteer" for 25 hours/week at the local dollar store (new window).

Work furloughs are a valuable economic resource !

Lucky LaRue: Weaver95: wanna know why cannabis will never be legal? there ya go...non-violent drug offenses carry heavy prison terms and provide a cheap labor pool for our corporate masters.

Your paranoia is an inspiration to the legalize marijuana movement.

Really? Anyone who thinks prison isn't a profit center for private companies just isn't paying attention.

Shipping jobs to China. Shipping jobs to India. Shipping jobs to prisons.

All so the 1% can get richer.

And millions of working- and middle-class Americans are going to vote R...just like the 1% want them to.

We're fkn doomed.

There is good money to be mad off these unsavory characters! Prison is a business, a modern day plantation. Gotta keep those slave ships cop cars moving, they always need new darkie druggie labor.

Theaetetus: And we call ourselves a civilized society?

The Romans called themselves a civilized society. They regularly staged public performances of wild beasts raping women to death.

Theaetetus: What happened to rehabilitation and turning them into productive citizens?

That's never been a goal of our prison system. We're too puritanical for that. The purpose of prison is punishment, a state-run vicarious outlet for all our hatreds and frustrations. Vendetta in a pretty wrapper.

Face it, those in power have lost all fear of the people, and until they regain it, we continue a slow slide to totalitarianism.

I knew it was just a matter of time before Fiddy Cent went to jail.

A Fark Handle: not ripping? i mean, i know the romans are sick bastards, but...

Either/or/both, depending on the day and ruler.

Microsoft, Costco, Dell, Walmart, Starbucks, Victoria's Secret, Jansport, Nintendo, Boeing, MicroJet and JC Penny have all used slave, uh, prison labor.

Federal Prison Industries, a.k.a. Unicor, says that in addition to soldiers' uniforms, bedding, shoes, helmets, and flak vests, inmates have produced missile cables used in the Patriot missile and wiring harnesses for jets and tanks.

At California's prison dental laboratory, inmates produce a complete prosthesis selection, including custom trays, try-ins, bite blocks, and dentures. Also? Each month, California inmates process more than 680,000 pounds of beef, 400,000 pounds of chicken products, 450,000 gallons of milk, 280,000 loaves of bread, and 2.9 million eggs (from 160,000 inmate-raised hens).

Yummy, yummy slave labor.

USA USA USA!!!!

A market research call center I worked for (it's no longer in business) was doing this back in the mid-90s with inmates in the Snake River Correctional Institution. That was bad enough, but when the story originally broke on either 20/20 or 60 Minutes, we'd get asked if we were performing surveys from a prison.

Even worse, the owner of the call center decided to let the inmates do surveys for our second biggest client, the Cartoon Network. We were doing a survey called Family Panel where we'd do a monthly survey with all the family members from age 6 on up as to their TV viewing habits. These were people that had been recruited from applications they had made to the Cartoon Network. Needless to say, the Cartoon Network was none too pleased that inmates were not only interviewing young children, but these inmates also had access to all sorts of personal information about each family. Names, ages, addresses, phone numbers. And if all that wasn't bad enough, one of the wives started getting unwelcome letters from the inmate who had interviewed her.

Long story short, the company got sued by not only the Cartoon Network (breach of trust, breach of contract, etc.), but the family who had the unwelcome contact from the inmate threatened to sue not just the company I worked for, but Cartoon Network too. They ended up settling out of court with our company, the suit was dropped against the Cartoon Network.

Sounds like a deal. Better gin up some more reasons to turn over the incarceration duties of the state to private contractors, because those tax money kickbacks aren't gonna deposit themselves.

So...am I the only one who knew this has been going on for the better part of two decades now?

By reading the comments, apparently so. Where the hell do you guys keep yourselves all day?