Loading ...Billion-dollar prisons: why the US is pouring money into new construction
At a time when the US has narrowly skirted a recession, and people around the country are still struggling with the cost of living, a curious number of states have found billions of dollars for one thing: building prisons and jails.
The willingness to spend vast amounts of money on locking people up, particularly in states like Alabama, which has one of the highest poverty rates in the country, is staggering.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/28/states-spending-money-build-prison-republican
The prison industrial complex
The military industrial complex
The pharma industrial complex
The deep state industrial complex
None of these add value to the economy. Instead they feed off it. Like leeches killing the host. Farming the people for every last cent, until one day soon…poof, the economy is gone!