Apologies for that, csteele. I hadn't read the link you provided but just found the article via search terms along the lines of "prison profit". I hope you won't change your style, you're already one of the most lucid posters on OLO.

in-car-ser-ration
in car seration

either way its unpleasant
[i have word for 25 cents an hour
and been in private and public prisons]

most are there for defaulting an order
[this is the highest ratio of crime]
those too poor to pay punative fine regemes
[like being one day late with rego costs near 2000 plus court costs]

so you couldnt afford rego
who cant govt..could..auto-fine you the cost of rego
[that then..if unpaid puts you in jail...[for a week]
we could free up the courts]

but im sick of giving them ideas
they want legal slavery..and got it
now they need to make up the numbers
so the capitalists..can reap in nice govt capital
by lobbying morer crime..[more reasons to jail]

and when discharged..you be homeless
and the wife and kids are gone

a great system..
that capitalists have be-gotten.

religeons for creed abouve need
yes abrogating responsability governance regress
compounded by odious debt...exposing the real criminals

Dear Squeers,

Thanks for the compliment but happy enough if I can hold down middle rung, particularly as the majority of my post are off an iPhone and OLO is not yet the most friendly for editing with the device. I often wince at the number of dropped words I find when reading the thread again.

As for the link it certainly deserves being posted more than once. It is damning.

Squeers, csteele, Poirot

Thanks for keeping this thread as interesting as it is informative. Many years ago an Aussie film titled: "Ghosts of the Civil Dead" was made on the topic of privatised prisons. Worth a watch just for the ending: filmed in my home town which really brought me an extra chill and sense of despair. Nick Cave makes an OTT cameo (can't help myself - live for music, film, the arts in general).

I see no end in sight of unfettered capitalism of all our essential services from our current political system. Also I do not get the anachronism trotted out by those of "left" or "right" wing - the winner is money ahead of humanity.

Cannot believe Labor government prepared to send unaccompanied children to Malaysia - incarceration of children, I am sickened by it all. Didn't think we could get any lower than the "children overboard" shite and we have.

Poor Country Australia.

Squeers,

Man I used that on Belly's missing children thread and nobody was the least bit concerned at the US and it's organised slavery.

It's only slavery of men mostly, so it's probably not a human rights issue and nothing to do with equality I suppose.

Houellebecq,
the article has done the rounds then--I suspect modern versions of slavery are a huge issue for women too, but less so prison slavery.

" Squeers, csteele, Poirot

Thanks for keeping this thread as interesting as it is informative".

Thanks Ammonite, but I deserve very little credit here. Have been run off my feet and unable to contribute much at all of late.
I think this thread deserves far more attention than it's received.