If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, ‘the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Prison Profiteers Are Neo-Slaveholders and Solitary Is Their Weapon of Choice
Author: CHRIS HEDGES
Source: truthout
Publication Date: Monday, 18 March 2013 10:56
Link: Prison Profiteers Are Neo-Slaveholders and Solitary Is Their Weapon of Choice
Source: truthout
Publication Date: Monday, 18 March 2013 10:56
Link: Prison Profiteers Are Neo-Slaveholders and Solitary Is Their Weapon of Choice
Stephan: If you read SR regularly you know I have been focused on the New American slavery trend for several years now (see The New American Slavery: http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2811%2900043-7/fulltext.
We are becoming a country I hardly recognize. I hate these stories, and the trends they represent. But I deal in facts, and have to report the trends whether I like them or not. Part of what concerns me about social progressives is that many don't like to read or hear about what is actually happening. It is the left-wing version of Willful Ignorance. You can't change what you won't look at.