![]() Ten years ago there were only five private prisons in the country, with a population of 2,000 inmates now, there are 100, with 62,000 inmates. From less than 300,000 inmates in 1972, the jail population grew to 2 million by the year 2000. Statistics reveal that the United States holds 25% of the world’s prison population, but only 5% of the world’s people. According to California Prison Focus, “no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens.” The figures show that the United States has locked up more people than any other country: a half million more than China, which has a population five times greater than the U.S. There are approximately 2 million inmates in state, federal and private prisons throughout the country. ![]() All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems moreover, if they don’t like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells. They don’t have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more. All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor. ![]()
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