On The Correctional Faculty

the megajails are coming &
with them, the richest country in the world which
without any irony whatsoever,
continues to lock up the largest percentage of its own citizens in the world &
then throws away the key,
hoping to never hear from the incarcerated again---
as the population of prisoners in this country swells,
revenue increases,
brought in by the building of prisons &
the stockpiling of
inmates---
and at present, most stand with hands supposedly tied,
watching the wicked weave their web.

in 2007 alone,
“the bureau of prisons budgeted $5 billion dollars for
182,000 federal inmates”---
that is well below the proposed $30+ billion that is spent a year
on prisons in the US,
and so there is a “prison market,”
one in which
private companies to sink their teeth into
everything from the need for cells ($14,000-$18,000 a piece)
to modernized & specialized security devices ($1.5 billion dollar market) &
if you are really interested, you have the moola, and you’re an aspiring
entrepreneur,
you can attend the annual
American Correctional Association convention
(the next one is in january, the 20th-25th in phoenix, arizona)
where every new gadget to make imprisoning people in this country
easier & more profitable for those interested
can be viewed, tried out, etc.---
it is like an electronics convention for
oppressors.

what we’ve got here
is much more than a failure to communicate---
for what has been happening for years is only
intensifying---
our behavior as a society is not one in which we even attempt to rehabilitate,
medicate or give therapy anymore---
instead,
a very very small fraction of the population
which owns everything & thrives from the
desecration, degradation & detriment of
others within these borders,
has found new ways to profit from the collective misery of those that it deems
“correctable.”

how long this unsustainable process will be able to play its game of
make-believe
is anybody’s guess,
but the reality is that when people are locked up
they generally are not happy with those that locked them up &
so if you are out here,
walking around free,
as if none of this concerns you...
you need to wake up.

the ignorance & silence concerning those that this country
considers its
garbage,
needs to be addressed,
and a sense of justice must be reinvigorated
(if one believes it ever existed in the first place)---
it has to be commanded by those that have been sleeping,
for those that fill their bank accounts with the money rolling in
are just going to cash out
and fly to the moon,
or one of the private islands being built in international waters.

you & i will be the only ones left on the outside when the gates finally come crashing down.

so,
the clock is ticking &
one needs to take a side---
best you hurry up
now.