The 13th Amendment

Just finished watching the 13th on Netflix by Ava DuVernay

With only 5% of the world population the US has 25% of the world incarcerated.

One in 4 out of the people in prison anywhere in the world is an America.

South Africa's apartheid was taken from the US segregation laws, then mass incarceration.

The "I am not a crook" Nixon used the Southern Strategy and the "War on Drugs".

Then Ronald Reagan continued the war on drugs and harsher sentences placed on crack than on cocaine. Minorities, especially African Americans, were disproportionately incarcerated. More that 80 percent of federal prisons serving crack cocaine sentences were black. In August 2010 President Barack Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to “restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing“ laws.

The war on drugs was like a war on blacks and I used to like Reagan. And these like other terms are codes for "war on blacks" like "state rights", "forced-bussing", "cutting-taxes", “law and order” etc the end product is that black communities are hurt more than white. Then next time step was during the Clinton era with 3 Strikes, Mandatory Minimums, Truth in Sentencing, etc there was a massive expansion in the prison system with an over-representation in the Africa-America communities. With the 1994 Crime Bill which had a $30 billion budget crime does pay if you a private security contractor.
Then there is the "crimmigration", where the immigration is taken over by Prison Services hence making immigrants – criminals.

Black men make up 6.5% of the population of the US but make up 40% of the population of US Prisons.

The Prison Industrial Complex is a system put in place to profit from incarceration and would do everything in their power to increase prison numbers because it is their profit. Then there are the companies and their suppliers who profit from it and will do everything in their power to keep it that way. The system has been heavily monetized, and they make money from the volume and the prison labour, which big companies are investing in.

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