Imagine if you can, the effect of shrinking the Criminal Justice System by a single percentage point. I’m not talking about imagining a one percent reduction in the crime rate. That statistic, such as it is, can be manipulated to any party’s benefit. No! Rather, imagine a tangible shrinking of the Criminal Justice System, as a whole. Let us reach beyond the obvious, but the obvious itself is startling: Shrinking judges, lawyers, and investigators, jails, prisons, and courtrooms, etc. by one percent. Wow! Let us go deeper. How many corporations in the United States derive some (e.g., office supplies providers, automobile and fuel providers, etc.) or all (e.g., Corr. Corp. of Am., GEO Group, etc.) of their revenue from the Criminal Justice System? And there are corporations outside of the United States, particularly international banks, that derive revenue from the US Criminal Justice System also. It is likely that tens of thousands of corporations in the US depend on the US Criminal Justice System to some extent, large or small.
Contemplation quickly reveals a sad truth: The whole of the United States has found itself in the same hole that the antebellum Deep South had dug for itself. The Deep South built for itself an economy that was wholly dependent for its success on chattel slavery. The history books declare that the Union won the US Civil War, but I question the truth of that. In the aftermath of the war the Union should have, but did not, filled in and planted over the hole that the Deep South had dug. It instead allowed the Deep South to pull the whole of the nation into its hole. We today are as dependent on enslaving our population to the Criminal Justice System as the Deep South was on enslaving theirs to the plantation owners.
This is the Pit Our Politicians Have Dug For Us.
Steven McCain 2096064
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