We want to examine the “prison industrial complex” to see the wicked plan of policymakers to reinstitute “slavery” and involuntary servitude, especially among Black, Hispanic, and poor Whites. Let’s play this thing forward to “2017” in “the land of the free.” This land now boasts the highest incarceration rate in the world. It’s right here in the United States of America. Did you know that inmates are contracted out to private industries to do telemarketing, manufacturing, agriculture, and bill collection? The privatization of prisons has generated immense profit for policymakers and has coincided with the imprisonment of Black, Hispanic and poor Whites in campaigns with names like “three strikes,” tough on crime,” and “truth in sentencing.” If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sins, but he who causes the darkness. The policymakers of this society have caused the darkness; they created this criminalization, they created slums, they perpetuate unemployment, ignorance, and poverty. It is incontestable and deplorable that Blacks, Hispanics, and poor Whites of America have committed crimes, but they are derivative crimes. What do I mean by derivative? These crimes are born of the greatest crimes of the policymakers, so when we ask the black, brown, and poor whites to abide by the law, let us declare that the policymaker does not abide by the law in the ghettos. Day in and day out they violate welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; they flagrantly violate building codes and regulations; their police make a mockery of law; they violate laws on equal employment and education and the provisions for civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the policymakers. Let me say this boldly that if the total violations of law by the policy makers over the years were calculated, the policy makers would be the hardened criminals.
Rashd Graham
MCI Norfolk