April 2012
104 posts
“Corrections Corporation of America’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission read very much like the documents of a slave-trader. Investors are warned that profits would go down if the demand for prisoners declines. That is, if the world’s largest police state shrinks, so does the corporate bottom line. Dangers to profitability include “relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws.” The corporation spells it out: “any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them.” At the Corrections Corporation of America, human freedom is a dirty word.”
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Private Prison Corporations Are Slave Traders | Glen Ford (via theamericanbear)
The Prison Economy. The Militarized Border and Deportation Gulag. The War Machine. These have become central pillars of US society and its political economy.
(via zuky)
Coming our way soon.
CONSENT WORKSHOP RESOURCES! →
consensual.tumblr.com
- Learning Good Consent Zine: http://zinelibrary.info/learning-good-consent
- Let’s Talk About Consent Baby Zine: http://anarchalibrary.blogspot.com/2010/09/lets-talk-about-consent-baby-zine.html
- The Fantasy of Acceptable Non-Consent: Why the Female Sexual Submissive Scares Us (And Why She Shouldn’t)—this is the rad BDSM-oriented article I had available: http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/113745/the_fantasy_of_acceptable_’non-consent’:_why_the_female_sexual_submissive_scares_us_(and_why_she_shouldn’t)/
- Empower Yr Sexy Self Zine (DIY sexuality zine, yeah!):http://fuckyeahradicalliterature.tumblr.com/post/867101923/zine-empower-yr-sexy-self-a-workbook
- Support Zine (a really intense, sometimes-triggering, but beautiful and extremely helpful and inspiring zine about surviving and thriving after experiencing sexual assault):http://www.phillyspissed.net/node/18
- How to Put Together your own Consent Workshop - http://zinelibrary.info/how-put-together-your-own-consent-workshop
