Reorganization of the American State full: _http://www.lrna.org/2-pt/v18ed2art5.html_ (http://www.lrna.org/2-pt/v18ed2art5.html) One, two and three-strike laws with long mandatory sentences, laws to try children as adults, the advent of zero-tolerance laws, the rise of “ quality-of-life” policing, and the aggressive enforcement of even the most petty of municipal codes, have served to both terrorize the poor and to make Americans the most incarcerated population on the globe. California alone holds more inmates than France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the Netherlands combined. The Bureau of Justice reported that in December 2006 over 2.25 million people were incarcerated in America’s jails and prisons. Most of them are poor and disproportionate numbers are African-American and growing numbers of Latin-American immigrants. Another three million people are on parole. The poor are arrested for asking for food, for sitting on a park bench, for jaywalking, or sleeping on the sidewalk. Parole requirements are so repressive that joblessness itself can be grounds to be returned to prison. As factories close their doors forever, prisons have become a crucial source of jobs. Over 700,000 people are currently employed by U.S. jails and prisons. Prisons and jails have become indispensable to many small towns and rural areas as the sole source of employment and the mainstay of local businesses. Profit making from Prisons The commodification, militarization and privatization of prisons
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