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| | US prison empire |
 | | Prisons are being privatized and converted into sweat-shops where, for example, pot puffers might find themselves in an ironic hell on earth
a dark cave were they are forced to answer unending calls for a travel agency, for the rest of their lives. |
 | | prison populations since 1980 can be traced in part to changes in sentencing laws that are intended to get tough on crime, particularly drug offenders."6 From '85 to '94, Drug offences were responsible for 36% of the increase in state prison populations and 71% of the increase in federal prison populations. |
 | | In Ohio, prisoners do data processing, and in Southern California they answer phones to book vacation flights for TWA.19 Typically, prisoners are paid for their work, but most of the money they make is taken from them by the prison for rent, food, taxes, and a host of other exagerrated costs. |
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