http://www.vice.com/read/a-former-n...-blacks-and-hippies-vgtrn?utm_source=vicefbus
In fact, I published a series on the forces shaping the for-profit prison industry, beginning with Nixon.
Fun fact of the day- The US prison population was stable, growing in symmetric relation to population, through war, depression, social change, prohibition etc. It exploded with the targeting of dissenters andblacks under Nixon and now we have the largest prison population on the planet.
In many ways we are a true police state. We have just grown accustomed to it.
In fact, I published a series on the forces shaping the for-profit prison industry, beginning with Nixon.
Fun fact of the day- The US prison population was stable, growing in symmetric relation to population, through war, depression, social change, prohibition etc. It exploded with the targeting of dissenters andblacks under Nixon and now we have the largest prison population on the planet.
In many ways we are a true police state. We have just grown accustomed to it.
