This linked article explains how states are selling their prisons (and the people housed therein) to private companies who intern are selling the labor of their charges to other large corporations for a few dollars a day.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175...an,_creating_a_prison-corporate_complex/#more
In effect slavery has been reestablished.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175...an,_creating_a_prison-corporate_complex/#more
In effect slavery has been reestablished.