Like other southern states, Alabama also has a long notorious history of slavery in this country which hasn’t died, but is still continuing to this very day mainly in the form of mass incarceration where most of the inmates that are currently incarcerated in Alabama are African men.
The mass incarceration and The War On Drugs have severely decimated our community and our family structure over the past few decades. It’s where inner city people like myself have seen my 5 older brothers, some of my other relatives and even old homies that I grew up in the neighborhood went to prison for mostly nonviolent drug related offenses.
Last year, I remember reading articles about inmate strikes and revolts that happened here in Alabama because of horrible, unhealthy living conditions as well as severe overcrowding in Alabama’s prisons. The prison system in Alabama has never treated the inmates with a fair shake because they have the “Money Over Everything” mentality when it comes to what really matters most to them.
America wants to shame other countries like China and North Korea for it’s human rights violations, but the biggest violators of human rights are right here in America because everyday, we are often disrespected and violated by parasitic capitalists alike due to their toxic obsession for not only harming and financially exploiting us in many destructive ways from the music, TV, and movies industry to the prison system.
The Conclusion – From the looks of this “prison reform plan” the overcrowding problem won’t be solved by building more prisons. It will only be solved by taking a stand against parasitic capitalism.
Article Appeared @http://thyblackman.com/2017/02/14/alabamas-800-million-dollar-prison-reform-plan-a-front-to-build-more-prisons-to-lock-up-more-african-people-particularly-african-men/