Jeff Sessions’ War On Drugs Is A Huge Win For Private Prisons

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9 Economic Facts That Will Make Your Head Spin | Alternet

9 Economic Facts That Will Make Your Head Spin | Alternet
"How much will you need for medical expenses in retirement? What does it cost to keep 2.5 million Americans behind bars? Here are a few facts and figures that might surprise you."

Meet The Industry That Makes the Koch Brothers Look Poor (VIDEO) | Alternet

Meet The Industry That Makes the Koch Brothers Look Poor (VIDEO) | Alternet
"When will the United States start thinking beyond bars?

This nation is now spending over $200 billion a year on a justice system that locks up more people than any country on earth . We have more prisoners than China. More than Russia. More than anyone. This colossal system is hitting our communities with staggering financial and human costs — gobbling resources that should be going to strengthening communities."

Crazy Country: 6 Reasons America Spends More on Prisons Than On Higher Education | Alternet

Crazy Country: 6 Reasons America Spends More on Prisons Than On Higher Education | Alternet
"Dollars doing to prisons will soon outpace dollars going to higher education in every state of the union."

U.S. is the Worst Police State in the World – By the Numbers : Information Clearing House: ICH

U.S. is the Worst Police State in the World – By the Numbers       :    Information Clearing House: ICH
"When U.S. corporate media operatives use the term “police state,” they invariably mean some other country. Even the so-called “liberal” media, from Democracy Now to the MSNBC menagerie, cannot bring themselves to say “police state” and the “United States” without putting the qualifying words “like” or “becoming” in the middle. The U.S. is behaving “like” a police state, they say, or the U.S. is in danger of “becoming” a police state. But it is never a police state. Since these privileged speakers and writers are not themselves in prison – because what they write and say represents no actual danger to the state – they conclude that a U.S. police state does not, at this time, exist.

Considering the sheer size and social penetration of its police and imprisonment apparatus, the United States is not only a police state, but the biggest police state in the world, by far: the police state against whose dimensions all other police systems on Earth must be measured."

Prison, Drug War Spending Rockets While Higher Education Funding Declines | Common Dreams

Prison, Drug War Spending Rockets While Higher Education Funding Declines | Common Dreams
"In 2012, both corrections spending and student debt hit $1 trillion milestones, leading higher education advocates to wonder how prison costs soak up education allocations, thus hurting the economy and limiting low income students’ access to campuses."