The US police state, the "best" in the world

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34. The real reason is the For Profit Prison Industry. Locking people for stupid stuff is deliberate.

The more bodies in prison, the more profits are made. Big Banks, like Wells Fargo are investing in the For Profit Prison Industry which pushes for legislation to criminalize behavior that normally would not be considered criminal or prison worthy.

The far right morons are merely stooges in this for profit game of incarcerating, right now, 1 in every 100 Americans. They cheer on the laws they think will never affect them, since most of them are aimed at the poor and minorities, the least powerful people in our society and the least likely to be able to fight back. Far right wingers are not going to be opposing the jailing of minorities eg and can be counted on to support these laws manufactured by Big Corps.

Wells Fargo Now A Major Shareholder In For-Profit Prisons

A driving force behind the push for ever-tougher sentences is the for-profit prison industry, in which Wells Fargo is a major investor. Flush with billions in bailout money and an economic system designed to siphon wealth from the working class to the idle rich, Wells Fargo has been busy expanding its stake in the GEO Group, the second largest private jailer in America.

At the end of 2011, Wells Fargo was the company’s second-largest investor, holding 4.3 million shares valued at more than $72 million. By March 2012, its stake had grown to more than4.4 million shares worth $86.7 million.

Unfortunately, it’s a safe investment. While a 50 percent growth in the number of human beings our society cages in rape factories may sound impressive – or perhaps the word is “revolting” – a study released last year by the Justice Policy Institute found that the private prison industry grew by more than 350 percent over the last decade and a half. While other industries of course benefit from state-granted privileges, companies like GEO profit by the state literally kidnapping and handing them clientèle, particularly as of late about-to-be-deported immigrants ....

We currently have one quarter of the entire world's incarcerated people. We have only 300,000 citizens. There are over 7 billion people on this planet. That is a shocking statistic. And so long as Democrats do not stand up against this vile system, who else is going to stop it?