The 13th Amendment

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." 

That is the 13th Amendment. It was passed  on January 31st and ratified on December 6, 1865 it was supposed to abolish slavery, but it seems like it did not and it sent it into the prison system. I have read that the demographics in prisons in the south were flipped and that they started incarcerating African-Americans and working them in prison chain gangs. At the same time after the Civil War the Sharecropping system was another form of slavery in itself, because many times people would work just to pay back debt on land and on tools borrowed.

In today's society prisoners are still being used as cheap labor by many corporations. They pay them from between 11-23 cents an hour which they quickly get back through the highly inflated commissary products. It is the old "Company Store System" all over again. These prisons cut anywhere and everywhere so that they can maximize profit.

This Private Prison System  is profiting off of the misery of others.  These people see us as commodities, they just want to lock us up and exploit us. Maybe that is why the U.S. has 2.2 million people behind bars, more than any other country in the world. Slavery has never ended, things have just changed.

Another thing to worry about is the school to Prison Pipeline which is pushing kids out of schools and into the arms of Resource Officers, or pushing out of schools because they score poorly on the standardized tests. It is not about helping them learn giving them a future anymore, it is all about money, everything is about "Paper". This is not human.