Next Level BS: Saving the Internet from BS, one turd at a time: theNLBS. There Are Several Chicago Style FEMA Camps in Every State. As I was investigating the FEMA camp run and maintained by the Chicago PD, I kept running into the topic of privatized prisons.
I first wrote about privatized prisons almost seven years ago. Subsequently, I decided to take a fresh look and what I found was shocking. The privatized prison industry owns and controls nearly every elected official. State officials are literally “stealing” money from education and putting that money into the privatized prison system. Most states have guaranteed privatized prisons 100% occupancy rates and the conditions of these prisons are increasingly barbaric and clearly fit the definition of slave labor. The United States Has the Highest Incarceration Rate In the World There are over two million inmates in American prisons, or one in 743 people.
In 1972, the U.S. had less than 300,000 inmates. According to Charles Campbell, author of The Intolerable Hulks (2001), the privatization of the prisons movement has its origins in the Revolutionary War period. There's a 'black site' in America that's reportedly treating US citizens like terrorists. Chicago’s police department is detaining US citizens for days on end in a secret compound where suspects have no contact with the outside world, theGuardian reports today.
Lawyers have compared the off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago’s Homan Square neighbourhood to the CIA’s so-called black sites offshore that are used to interrogate terrorists. Police there reportedly carry heavy military gear, and huge armoured tanks are parked outside. “There are usually questions about whether these arrests are justifiable or constitutional,” Anthony Hill, a criminal defence attorney, told Business Insider.
“Suspected criminals are just picked up and thrown into the back of unmarked cars by police officers wielding assault rifles and wearing bulletproof vests. Describing the process as highly militarised would be fair.” Hill added, “It’s a black hole.” Lawyers who can’t find their clients at police stations often try to find them at the warehouse. The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights. Alleged police practices at Homan Square, according to those familiar with the facility who spoke out to the Guardian after its investigation into Chicago police abuse, include: At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square “interview room” and later pronounced dead.
Brian Jacob Church, a protester known as one of the “Nato Three”, was held and questioned at Homan Square in 2012 following a police raid. Mass Incarceration Has Been a Costly and Utter Failure: Report. Decades of mass incarceration have proven to be a costly and ineffective strategy to reduce crime, a groundbreaking report published Thursday found.
In fact, increased punishments and jailings have been declining in effectiveness for more than 30 years, according to the report, titled What Caused the Crime Decline? (pdf) and released by the Brennan Center for Justice. Violent crime rates fell by more than 50 percent between 1991 and 2013, while property crime declined by 46 percent, according to FBI statistics. Yet between 1990 and 2009, the prison population in the U.S. more than doubled, jumping from 771,243 to over 1.6 million. While incarceration may have initially had a positive outcome on the crime rate, it has reached a point of diminishing returns, the researchers said during a press call Thursday.
Mass incarceration is "a tragedy," writes Nobel Prize winning economist Dr. Declining alcohol consumption and "consumer confidence" also contributed to the crime drop.