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Why prisons? Because law enforcement is a growth industry.
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Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:57:01 GMT
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Prison Industry Has a Lock on Davis
http://alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=16423
Davis has slashed just about every state-funded program, including education,
health care and workforce development. But one institution seems to be immune
from the epidemic belt-tightening: prisons. With just a 1.8 percent overall
reduction, the Department of Corrections’ budget remains almost completely
intact.
Some areas of the prison budget even get a big boost -- mostly luxuries for the
department bureaucracy and for prison employees. Davis makes up the difference
by gutting health care, educational and vocational programs, drug rehabilitation
and other services for inmates.
Of course when you cut most other programs you’d better bolster your prison
expenditures -- where else do you suppose these unemployed, sickly, illiterates
will end up? The White House? Naw, that’s reserved for a different class of
crook.
-- Hop-Frog
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