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Prisons
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Prisoners - they have nothing to give, except suffering. Which is exactly what the guards are after: the pleasure of torment; the scratching of their itches for power
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― The Last Year of Confusion
― The Last Year of Confusion
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One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed becaus
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