-- On 7 Sep 2001, at 13:40, John Young wrote:
The competiton between government-run prisons and the commercial ops have led to fabulous lobbying and jawboning of legislators and wardens to spread the lucrative but diminishing prison-care population around,
I think there is little danger that enemies of the state will be targeted. What appears to be happening is that in those semi rural counties that are particularly dependent on the prison business, they bust anyone who passes through who is from out of town, poor, and of the incorrect race, and sentence them to seven years or so on whatever they can find. Those cops and judges would not touch political activists with a ten foot pole. They want peaceful no-account people who will not make trouble, and will not get anyone making trouble for them. Not only will they not touch political activists, they are often reluctant to touch real criminals, since real criminals are often unprofitable to imprison. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG qeAmePYMQs+2fs9grz5Mwvlgsc9pcm/mMQgpTkbM 4u7EV0HOpoP6V0ezEklb1QSbQBmJb65puwaWBTjnk