Collateral Sanctions - Black Preaching Network2024-03-29T13:41:09Zhttps://abcpreachers.ning.com/forum/topics/collateral-sanctions?commentId=916966%3AComment%3A2801665&feed=yes&xn_auth=noIts a different kind of slave…tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2012-02-22:916966:Comment:29048322012-02-22T17:09:39.332Znewviewhttps://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/newview
<p>Its a different kind of slavery.</p>
<p>Some things just stay the same.</p>
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<p>You should go to the NPR website and click on the show This American Life. It has all kinds of stories you can listen to that are so informative and interesting.</p>
<p>Anyway - there is one called 'Sentencing'. It will make you want to pull your hair out.</p>
<p>Its unbelievable how the laws are so unjust thats its unsettling. But listen to it.</p>
<p>Its a different kind of slavery.</p>
<p>Some things just stay the same.</p>
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<p>You should go to the NPR website and click on the show This American Life. It has all kinds of stories you can listen to that are so informative and interesting.</p>
<p>Anyway - there is one called 'Sentencing'. It will make you want to pull your hair out.</p>
<p>Its unbelievable how the laws are so unjust thats its unsettling. But listen to it.</p> Ask yourself, how does 800 s…tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2012-02-18:916966:Comment:29012042012-02-18T23:00:10.712ZAnthonyhttps://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/Anthony88
<p> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Ask yourself, how does 800 stipulations be written into law? Here's another one nobody paid much attention to. The National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law on New Year’s Eve.</font></font> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Nobody paid attention to that one, at least not yet . I bet in about 6 years or so a lot of folks will be paying real close attention to the National Defense Authorization Act. I did a thread on that one as well. Click…</font></font></p>
<p> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Ask yourself, how does 800 stipulations be written into law? Here's another one nobody paid much attention to. The National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law on New Year’s Eve.</font></font> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Nobody paid attention to that one, at least not yet . I bet in about 6 years or so a lot of folks will be paying real close attention to the National Defense Authorization Act. I did a thread on that one as well. Click here-->> <a href="http://abcpreachers.ning.com/forum/topics/president-obama-signs-police-state-legislation-into-law" target="_blank">http://abcpreachers.ning.com/forum/topics/president-obama-signs-police-state-legislation-into-law</a> <br/></font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/></font></font></p> A lot of folks don't & th…tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2012-02-16:916966:Comment:28985872012-02-16T16:47:14.200ZAnthonyhttps://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/Anthony88
<p>A lot of folks don't & that's the problem because of a lot of folks complain about the system & how they're trapped in the system & how the system discriminate against them. They complain about the court system but want vote or do research on the judges & politicians that's elected. They complain but want work with the folks that's trying to change the laws that's structured to make money off them & keep them in the prison system. Spreading the word is the best thing to…</p>
<p>A lot of folks don't & that's the problem because of a lot of folks complain about the system & how they're trapped in the system & how the system discriminate against them. They complain about the court system but want vote or do research on the judges & politicians that's elected. They complain but want work with the folks that's trying to change the laws that's structured to make money off them & keep them in the prison system. Spreading the word is the best thing to do for folks with no voice. Thank u sister for reading the post & understanding because a lot of folks don't understand the structure of the court system or the structure of collateral sanctions. </p> wow! Thank you for getting th…tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2012-02-16:916966:Comment:28986752012-02-16T15:45:04.823ZEvelyn Blacksherhttps://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/EvelynBlacksher
<p>wow! Thank you for getting the information out .So much of this I DID NOT know.</p>
<p>wow! Thank you for getting the information out .So much of this I DID NOT know.</p> Say something is done to stop…tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2011-12-19:916966:Comment:28016652011-12-19T14:45:29.151ZAnthonyhttps://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/Anthony88
<p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Say something is done to stop</font></font> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">the 800 stipulations that were written into Ohio's constitution, laws, administrative codes and court rules to keep former inmates from qualifying for employment? Most people are in debt, so what make folks think felons have A-1 credit. Everyone know employers are unfairly using credit histories to weed out the down and out, especially people of color. So when folks who fought…</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Say something is done to stop</font></font> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">the 800 stipulations that were written into Ohio's constitution, laws, administrative codes and court rules to keep former inmates from qualifying for employment? Most people are in debt, so what make folks think felons have A-1 credit. Everyone know employers are unfairly using credit histories to weed out the down and out, especially people of color. So when folks who fought so hard to get</font></font> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Gov. John Kasich to change some of the laws look around & wonder why it's not successful</font></font> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">it's because they didn't see the blindside or the chess move that was played 7 moves ahead. So folks like State Sen. Shirley Smith</font></font> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">& others who fought hard look around & don't see a change it's by design.</font></font></p> Global Research Articles by V…tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2011-12-05:916966:Comment:27814652011-12-05T16:17:32.807ZAnthonyhttps://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/Anthony88
<p><a href="http://www.blackgreekforum.com/forum/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalresearch.ca%2Findex.php%3Fcontext%3DlistByAuthor%26authorFirst%3DVicky%26authorName%3DPelaez" target="_blank"><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><i>Global Research Articles by Vicky Pelaez</i></font></font></a></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">[Former] Oregon State Representative Kevin Mannix recently urged Nike to cut its…</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">[Former] Oregon State Representative Kevin Mannix recently urged Nike to cut its production in Indonesia and bring it to his state, telling the shoe manufacturer that "there won't be any transportation costs; we're offering you competitive prison labor (here)."</font></font><br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/></font></font> <br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Prison labor has its roots in slavery. After the 1861-1865 Civil War, a system of "hiring out prisoners" was introduced in order to continue the slavery tradition. Freed slaves were charged with not carrying out their sharecropping commitments (cultivating someone else's land in exchange for part of the harvest) or petty thievery - which were almost never proven - and were then "hired out" for cotton picking, working in mines and building railroads. From 1870 until 1910 in the state of Georgia, 88% of hired-out convicts were Black. In Alabama, 93% of "hired-out" miners were Black. In Mississippi, a huge prison farm similar to the old slave plantations replaced the system of hiring out convicts. The notorious Parchman plantation existed until 1972.</font></font><br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/></font></font> <br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">During the post-Civil War period, Jim Crow racial segregation laws were imposed on every state, with legal segregation in schools, housing, marriages and many other aspects of daily life. "Today, a new set of markedly racist laws is imposing slave labor and sweatshops on the criminal justice system, now known as the prison industry complex," comments the Left Business Observer.</font></font><br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/></font></font> <br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Who is investing? At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons. The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom's, Revlon, Macy's, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more. All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor. Just between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion. Inmates in state penitentiaries generally receive the minimum wage for their work, but not all; in Colorado, they get about $2 per hour, well under the minimum. And in privately-run prisons, they receive as little as 17 cents per hour for a maximum of six hours a day, the equivalent of $20 per month. The highest-paying private prison is CCA in Tennessee, where prisoners receive 50 cents per hour for what they call "highly skilled positions." At those rates, it is no surprise that inmates find the pay in federal prisons to be very generous. There, they can earn $1.25 an hour and work eight hours a day, and sometimes overtime. They can send home $200-$300 per month.</font></font><br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/></font></font> <br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Thanks to prison labor, the United States is once again an attractive location for investment in work that was designed for Third World labor markets. A company that operated a maquiladora (assembly plant in Mexico near the border) closed down its operations there and relocated to San Quentin State Prison in California. In Texas, a factory fired its 150 workers and contracted the services of prisoner-workers from the private Lockhart Texas prison, where circuit boards are assembled for companies like IBM and Compaq.</font></font><br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/></font></font> <br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">[Former] Oregon State Representative Kevin Mannix recently urged Nike to cut its production in Indonesia and bring it to his state, telling the shoe manufacturer that "there won't be any transportation costs; we're offering you competitive prison labor (here)."</font></font><br/> <br/> <br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">"The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to lock people up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders who make money off prisoners' work lobby for longer sentences, in order to expand their workforce. The system feeds itself," says a study by the Progressive Labor Party, which accuses the prison industry of being "an imitation of Nazi Germany with respect to forced slave labor and concentration camps."</font></font><br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/></font></font> <br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">The prison industry complex is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States and its investors are on Wall Street. "This multimillion-dollar industry has its own trade exhibitions, conventions, websites, and mail-order/Internet catalogs. It also has direct advertising campaigns, architecture companies, construction companies, investment houses on Wall Street, plumbing supply companies, food supply companies, armed security, and padded cells in a large variety of colors."</font></font><br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/></font></font> <br/> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4">According to the Left Business Observer, the federal prison industry produces 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet-proof vests, ID tags, shirts, pants, tents, bags, and canteens. Along with war supplies, prison workers supply 98% of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93% of paints and paintbrushes; 92% of stove assembly; 46% of body armor; 36% of home appliances; 30% of headphones/microphones/speakers; and 21% of office furniture.</font></font></p> I never take credit for some…tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2011-12-05:916966:Comment:27815692011-12-05T16:16:19.420ZAnthonyhttps://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/Anthony88
<div id="post_message_20453"><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">I never take credit for some else work. <br></br> This was written by Alan Predergast <br></br> <br></br> The following is a summary of an article entitled, "Prisons-R-Us" on the American Correctional Association "prisonfest" held last month in Cincinnati, Ohio. The article appeared in The Dayton Voice on September 20 and was written by Alan Predergast, a Denver based free-lance writer. Copies of this issue of The Voice (Vol. 3, No. 38) can…</font></font></div>
<div id="post_message_20453"><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">I never take credit for some else work. <br/> This was written by Alan Predergast <br/> <br/> The following is a summary of an article entitled, "Prisons-R-Us" on the American Correctional Association "prisonfest" held last month in Cincinnati, Ohio. The article appeared in The Dayton Voice on September 20 and was written by Alan Predergast, a Denver based free-lance writer. Copies of this issue of The Voice (Vol. 3, No. 38) can be obtained by sending $1.00 to: The Dayton Voice, 915 Salem Ave., Dayton, OH 45406. Here's the summary:<br/> <br/> Thanks to stiffer drug laws, tougher parole requirements, mandatory minimum sentences, "three strikes" laws and other legislation, the American prison population has tripled since 1980...The growth has been particularly dramatic -- and painful in Ohio, which now competes with California for the dubious honor of having the most overcrowded prison system in the country. Niki Schwartz, the Cleveland attorney who helped negociate an end to the Lucasville riot, is fond of pointing out that Ohio's prison budget was 1/6 of its higher education budget in 1982; as of 1993, it has risen to 1/3. "Soon we'll be spending more on corrections than on higher education, and that's crazy," Schartz declares.</font></font><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/> <br/> Punishment, not rehabilitation, is the name of the game... At the 125th congress there was no shortage of speeches denouncing the current prison binge, an indication of the growing anxiety among corrections professionals over swollen budgets, crowded prisons, and increasing punitive legislation that is making those prisons harder to manage. Jim Gondles, the soft-spoken, genial executive director of the ACA, says the biggest task facing the ACA is"educating people who don't work in corrections" about the industries growing professionalism and changing needs.</font></font><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/> <br/> Some aspects of privitization involve lucrative kickbacks to corrections agencies, at the expense of prisoners and their families. Phone companies bid agressively for the right to provide costly, hi-tech phone services to prisoners...the companies offer a commission on billing revenues to the prison that range as high as 35%. Inmate collect calls are a sore point with Charles Sullivan, director of CURE (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants), a national prison reform lobbying group. The cost of an inmate phone call can vary widely from system to system, depending on what the phone companies can slide past the regulators. "We don't think that kind of gouging is right," Sullivan says, "Why should prisons be making money from families on inmate phone calls?" Even the building of prisons is not as straightforward as it once was. Typically, the state corrections system will "lease" a new prison from a state authority, which issues bonds through private underwriters such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Prudential. The investors receive a significantly higher rate of interest than that paid by general obligation bonds. "Prison bonds are a good investment," reports Brad Sprague, an investment banker with Columbus office of A.G. Edwards Co. "I put my kid's money in them. You get individual investors, bank trust departments, mutual funds, insurance companies -- they all know the state of Ohio isn't going to go out of the prison business anytime soon." Corrections Corporation of America is the nation's largest owner and operator of privatized correctional and detention facilities and one of the largest prison operators in the United States, behind only the federal government and three states. CCA currently owns and operates more than 60 facilities including 44 company-owned facilities, with a design capacity of more than 85,000 beds in 19 states and the District of Columbia.</font></font><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/> <br/> The Company specializes in owning, operating and managing prisons and other correctional facilities and providing inmate residential and prisoner transportation services for governmental agencies. In addition to providing the fundamental residential services relating to inmates, CCA offers a variety of rehabilitation and educational programs, including basic education, life skills and employment training and substance abuse treatment. These services are intended to reduce recidivism and to prepare inmates for their successful re-entry into society upon their release. The Company also provides health care (including medical, dental and psychiatric services), food services and work and recreational programs. <br/> <br/> Goldman Sachs, a securities firm, owns Global Tel Link, which is a prison phone call provider. Global Tel Link’s annual profits are in excess of a $100 million. The prison phone call business is thought to be an excellent investment because they are companies that have a locked in/ fixed customer base. Goldman Sachs is in the process of trying to sell Global Tel Link for $800 million. This means that in a three year period Goldman Sachs would have earned close to $1 billion in profits from prison phone calls.</font></font><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/> <br/> You can’t get any job at Goldman Sachs with a felony conviction. Goldman Sachs doesn’t donate money to any reentry organizations. Why would they? Recidivism is good for business. Goldman Sachs list charities, that they donate to, on their website. What does Goldman Sachs do with its money? It provides the movie production company The Weinstein company with a $50 million line of credit. The Weinstein company is responsible for the Oscar winning movie “The King’s Speech” and the current release “I Don’t know How She Does It.”<br/></font></font> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/> The advocacy group Small Business United on Thursday called on Wells Fargo to provide a full accounting of investments related to private prisons and immigrant detention centers. Wells Fargo is <a href="http://www.blackgreekforum.com/forum/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fq%2Fmh%3Fs%3DGEO%2BMajor%2BHolders" target="_blank">one of the largest investors</a> in Geo Group, Inc. — the second largest private prison company in the world contracted by state and federal government agencies. The group<a href="http://www.blackgreekforum.com/forum/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2Fimmigration%2F148442%2Fhow_wall_street_profits_from_the_criminalization_of_immigrants_and_lobbies_for_more_to_be_locked_up" target="_blank">spends millions</a> lobbying for stricter immigration enforcement.</font></font> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/> <br/> Wells Fargo has claimed the investments in the GEO Group were made by Wells Fargo mutual funds on behalf of clients, not investments made by Wells Fargo and Company.</font></font><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/> <br/> “We demand transparency,” said Marco Reinoso, owner of Superstar Deli for 26 years and resident of Brooklyn. “I pay my fair share of taxes and deserve to know where the dark money trail leads, and whether our money is being used to further anti-immigrant bills that hurt our economy and lead to many in our community being treated with violence and inhumanity in these detention centers.”</font></font><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/> <br/> "The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to lock people up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders who make money off prisoners' work lobby for longer sentences, in order to expand their workforce. The system feeds itself," says a study by the Progressive Labor Party, which accuses the prison industry of being "an imitation of Nazi Germany with respect to forced slave labor and concentration camps."</font></font><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/> <br/> The prison industry complex is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States and its investors are on Wall Street. "This multimillion-dollar industry has its own trade exhibitions, conventions, websites, and mail-order/Internet catalogs. It also has direct advertising campaigns, architecture companies,construction companies, investment houses on Wall Street, plumbing supply companies, food supply companies, armed security, and padded cells in a large variety of colors."</font></font> <font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br/> According to the Left Business Observer, the federal prison industry produces 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet-proof vests, ID tags, shirts, pants, tents, bags, and canteens. <br/> <br/> Along with war supplies, prison workers supply 98% of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93% of paints and paintbrushes; 92% of stove assembly; <br/> 46% of body armor; 36% of home appliances; 30% of headphones/microphones/speakers; and 21% of office furniture. Airplane parts, medical supplies, and much more: prisoners are even raising seeing-eye dogs for blind people.</font></font></div>