My father was granted release on parole today, after more than 40 years in prison! 

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now contract out to other large companies to build products for these companies with the slave labor that they have with inmates who are only paid a few dollars a day, if even that much. The prison industry is now big business and because legislation has passed laws aimed at a
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specific set of people, namely minorities, those who have invested in the privatization of prisons need not fear losing their cheap labor because these laws have led to an overwhelming mass incarceration. Now you have overcrowded prisons run by inexperienced correctional officers
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who are largely outnumbered by inmates because we continue to overcrowd the prison system rather than sentence defendants to alternative programs, and that is going to equal a disaster waiting to happen. When you take into consideration the harsh and dehumanizing treatment these
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