“On Monday, the president commuted the sentences of 46 federal inmates, most of whom were serving lengthy terms for drug offenses.”
My science fiction novel ‘The Gideon Computer’ has come true. The Last Hippie of the future has been set free of the for-profit prison system. The President of the United States entered a Federal Prison, and began releasing prisoners. Jesus freed slaves and prisoners.. He came for the sinner and not the righteous. The righteous have made a huge profit off sins and sinners. They always make a profit off war. Then, they do not want to pay their taxes, and are never to blame for the national debt. How come it Jesus came to be on their side and they are forever blameless – and lawless?
Jon Presco
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/republican-2016-candidates-swimming-in-cash-from-for-profit-prisons/
With the rise of privately-owned prisons, incarceration has become big business in America. The private prison industry has quietly boomed over the last few years, with the federal private prison population more than doubling in the decade from 2000 to 2010.
Did you know that Jesus BEGAN his public ministry with a quote about the Jubilee?
He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. 17. And there was given Him the book of the prophet Isaiah . . . 18. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; for this reason, He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal those who are brokenhearted, to proclaim pardon to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth in deliverance those who have been crushed, 19. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” (Luke 4)
Jesus was quoting from Isaiah 61, verses 1 and 2. His official ministry began on Wednesday, September 11, 26 A.D., the Day of Atonement, which begins the Jubilee year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kGDI4wBiAE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-1SYa2mRvU
President Obama toured a federal prison in Oklahoma on Thursday and said the nation needs to reconsider policies that contribute to a huge spike in the number of people behind bars.
In an unprecedented visit by a sitting president, Obama met with half a dozen inmates at the El Reno prison, outside Oklahoma City. The trip was part of a weeklong push by the White House to focus attention on the president’s call for criminal justice reform.
Earlier this week, Obama spoke to an NAACP conference in Philadelphia, where he noted the U.S. prison population has quadrupled since 1980. Keeping more than 2 million Americans behind bars costs taxpayers some $80 billion a year.
“We have to consider whether this is the smartest way for us to both control crime and to rehabilitate individuals,” Obama said during his El Reno visit.
“There are people who need to be in prison,” he added. “And I don’t have tolerance for violent criminals.” But he argued it is time to change laws that impose lengthy mandatory sentences on nonviolent drug offenders, who are disproportionately black and Latino.
On Monday, the president commuted the sentences of 46 federal inmates, most of whom were serving lengthy terms for drug offenses. He’s also calling for improved conditions inside prisons, and for steps to help young people before they run afoul of the law.
After meeting with inmates in El Reno, Obama told reporters, “These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made.” What distinguishes many convicts, he says, is a lack of support and second chances.
The spike in incarceration rates since 1980 has also placed a strain on prison guards and facilities. Obama peered into a 9-by-10-foot cell that can house up to three inmates at a time. “Overcrowding like that is something that has to be addressed,” he said.
The president praised the Oklahoma facility for its job-training and educational offerings. But he added that help comes too late for many inmates.
“The question is not only how do we make sure that we sustain those programs here in the prison,” Obama said. “But how do we make sure that those same kinds of institutional supports are there for kids and teenagers before they get into the criminal justice system.”
https://rosamondpress.com/2015/06/19/the-liberation-of-all-humanity-on-the-jubilee-2/
https://rosamondpress.com/2015/03/19/pope-francis-and-i-declare-a-jubilee-on-friday/
https://rosamondpress.com/2013/10/25/the-gideon-computer-has-arrived/
https://rosamondpress.com/2015/05/02/gideon-computer-politics/
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/republican-2016-candidates-swimming-in-cash-from-for-profit-prisons/
With the rise of privately-owned prisons, incarceration has become big business in America. The private prison industry has quietly boomed over the last few years, with the federal private prison population more than doubling in the decade from 2000 to 2010. Today, the private prison population is more than 130,000, and private prisons hold some 17% of federal and 7% of state inmates . All of these bodies represent profit to the companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group that own and operate these facilities; the two corporations, which have an essential duopoly on the industry, pocketed more than $3.3 billion in revenue last year.
The private prison industry, of course, stands to lose from any change in policy – no matter how intelligent and humane – that would reduce the nation’s prison population. CCA and GEO have thus lobbied furiously against reductions in mandatory minimum sentencing laws and any form of drug legalization or decriminalization. As the nation continues flushing dollars down the toilet and ruining lives and communities with its failed war on drugs, Big Prison shares a huge burden of blame for the devastating toll. Similarly, the corporations have lobbied furiously in favor of harsh immigration rules like Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration law. It is highly disturbing that almost half of the nation’s immigrant detainees are now in the hands of private corporations for whom they represent no more than increased revenue for elite shareholders.
However, in what would seem to be a major issue for the industry, America’s rates of crime and illegal immigration have actually decreased significantly in recent years. The industry’s answer? Arrest more people anyway. In order to maintain revenue, privately own prison companies usually include a clause in their contracts mandating that occupancy levels remain at 90% or higher. CCA, GEO, and the politicians who back them are thus perpetuating the devastating effects of having so many Americans behind bars even as the issue would naturally be on the mend. Prison ruins lives, and yet these overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately minority lives are only collateral damage in the eyes of the committed corporatists at CCA and GEO.
With so much money being made on the backs of inmates and in an age when money is speech and campaign donations are unfettered, the prison industry has sought, just like any other big industry, to ensure the success of its interests by buying off politicians. CCA and GEO have spent an astounding $35 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in the previous decades, usually towards destructive ends. Even as policies like mandatory minimums, anti-immigration laws, and the drug war have repeatedly been shown to be racist wastes of money with no benefit on public safety, politicians have continued to support them at the behest of the prison lobbyists who pull their strings. And there has been no greater beneficiary of Big Prison lobbying – and by extension no greater culprit in the ruining of American lives through incarceration and drug policy – than Florida senator and recently-announced Presidential candidate Marco Rubio.
Florida, not coincidentally a national leader in prison privatization, has benefited from tremendous largesse from the private prison industry, with the Florida Republican Party having received more than $2.5 million from GEO and CCA, which are among its top donors. Rubio himself has received more than $40,000 directly and $35,000 via his PAC from GEO Group over the course of his career, stretching back to his time as Chairman of the Florida House of Representatives. While in that position, Rubio hired a former GEO trustee as his economic advisor and then promptly ensured that GEO was granted a $110 million contract to build the state’s largest private prison facility, Blackwater Creek Correctional Facility. A federal inquiry into the deal revealed tens of thousands in kickbacks to Florida lawmakers and resulted in the indictment of Florida House speaker Ray Sansom.
Then, as a United States senator, Rubio pushed heavily for Gov. Rick Scott’s plan to turn over 27 state prisons to GEO. Then, in 2011, the Florida Victory Committee, Rubio’s Florida PAC, received some $114,000 from GEO and its sub-contractors just as the group was launching a major lobbying campaign against immigration reform, an issue on which Rubio has largely sided with his puppet masters despite his best attempts to make it seem otherwise. Moreover, the lobbying firm of Rubio chief of staff and PAC leader Cesar Conda has pocketed more than $610,000 from GEO even as the group donated almost $20,000 directly to Rubio’s PAC last year
Rosamond Press 
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