Quote Originally Posted by dirtyhippy420
Hey man indentured servitude isn't a new concept. You know those roads you drive on? a great deal of them were built by chain gangs, something that's illegal here now, except in Arizona. I guess if they sit down inside it doesn't matter if they make $.12 a hour.
Indentured servitude is voluntary, at least someone has to volunteer you. The rights of slavery are abrogated in the Constitution once you are convicted of a crime slavery is ok. However, that athority is granted the government, not the power to delegate the athority to non-representative agencies (like CCA or Waggenhut), which are public corporate profit centers.

To give you an idea why those two HUGE corporations want more pot heads you have to get the deal. Every time someone is convicted of 1 to 5 for pot the corporations get $175,000 instantly to construct a cell for them. Then each year the government gives $60,000 for their upkeep. CCA or Waggenhut then take these prisoners and over crowd them, as there is no government oversight on public corporate agencies of the government, and enslave them to Honda, Liberty Travel and airlines reservation phone callins, whore houses etc. You read all the time about it, but it is real and all the time. So the inmates get a credit about 35 cents an hour for work and must pay 20cents of it a day for the laundry, room and board. Of course they also have to cook for themselves for free and do the laundry. Meantime these corporations have the largest profits of any service industry and have the money to continue funding more tough laws for more cells to be filled.

The british government does their studies and finds it very important to include how many more jail cells they will need when they pass a law.