[lbo-talk] Pods: Surpassing the Gulag in Scalability

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 20 22:19:37 PDT 2005


oh, shut up.

--- Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> The gulags ain't got nothin' on what the US has done
> to so many people
> in so many places in their own country(Any on the
> rez here? South Central?)
> that even the simplest rationalization makes me
> think of weasels... and weasel
> words. You can rationalize it all you want, gulag's
> not the word...
>
> So what DO you call the *mass incarceration* of the
> poor, and people of color
> in America? Take your eyes off the history books and
> dictionaries, and look around.
>
> Just in case you've never been on the inside:
>
> This is a Pod... Welcome home(minimum security
> style):
> http://www.radialomniview.com/index.php
>
> It's kinder, gentler, and meets all the upcoming
> revisions for prisoner "safety".
>
> <...>
> The Chapter (similar to County political
> subdivision) of Gadii'ahi of the Navajo Nation,
> located about ten miles from Shiprock New Mexico,
> passed a resolution to utilize the
> first OmniView Incarceration Complex. This new
> complex will include a 68 bed jail, a
> revenue generating 256 bed leased juvenile inmate
> incarceration facility, a World Class
> Detention Officer Training Academy and a paid (free
> world wages) inmate vocational
> training skills, You Visited Me, Inc.,
> not-for-profit Construction Trades, Education,
> Training, Employment & Experience Program complex.
> <...>
>
>
> Note that their biggest(perhaps only) purchaser to
> date appears to be
> a Navajo Nation group. There are almost 4 times as
> many juvie slots as
> there are adult... Start the institutionalization
> young, train them in useful
> things like booking airline reservations(no pun
> intended) or waterbed
> manufacturing(notoriously unhealthy work).
>
> Leigh
> http://www.leighm.net
>
>
>
>
>
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