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Lobbyists for the prison industrial complex
Lobbyists for the prison industrial complex
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } hell on earth III , originally uploaded by sanabria . Great article in the Boston Phoenix about how lobbyists for ...
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streetprophets.com — FIPL is in the forefront of those shaping the media narrative about the new religious landscape: religious voters are no longer shackled to a "narrow agenda" of abortion and gay marriage, and are voting on a "broader agenda," including poverty, the ... (more) More On The Religious-Industrial Complex
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pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... You want to think about something massively depressing?  The prison industry is a big business now, and they lobby for long sentences for drug users to maximize profits.  Which means that 95% of the people squalling about health care and having to pay for a universal health care program have zero compunction about paying more taxes to make sure that harmless people’s lives are ruined by prison and a lifetime of limited employment options. Think about that long and hard.  If we took the same money we ...

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