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Essay: "General Essay"Why are the prisoncrats in bed with the prison gangs and why do they reward criminality within prison? Prisoncrats have long thought that they couldn't control prisoners without encouraging prisoners to snitch on each other's activities. In fact, ordinary police work would screech to a glacial pace without a steady flood of snitchery to fuel it. Cops can not function without snitch-lines, news-stalkers begging for snitches on TV and radio, or beating snitchery out of people whom citizens have pointed out to them as criminals, etc. Prison cops model themselves after real cops, partly because the trashiest of real cops often get flushed down into prison work where their true moral character gets exposes far too often. When they do, they bring their cop-philosophies with them. When state governments switched "prisons" for "Correctional Institutions" and "guards" to "Correctional Officers", this snitchery required doctrine was codified in the newly created corrections textbooks, though not in the blunt, blue-collar language I use here. As state governments began to realize the true money making potential of their criminal slave holdings, prisons were proliferated to take advantage of the fact that ignorant citizens would pay huge, college-fund type amounts of tax cash to keep each criminal idle, in a cage, with virtually zero upkeep or overhead. (Prior to the change to "Correctional Institutions" most prisons were either self-sustaining or turned a profit from actual labor. The current practice of idling slaves is to prevent cries from business about tax-subsidized "competition.") Guards proliferated with them, discovered their political power and joined the cops, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, politicians, even news-artists, etc. in obtaining even more GNP pie with their incessant public rasping about crime. Crime went up slowly since WWII, then faster as a result of the criminilization of non-corporate, "drugs". Crime went up a little faster when the politicians emptied the mental institutions onto the streets, outlawed corporal punishment for schoolchildren, paid welfare moms to have dad-less kids, let these kids escape schools and the learning of English, and let 20 million illegal aliens take a free ride during the last amnesty used by the politicians and corporate/merchant interests to sabotage producer-wages in favor of merchant profits. Despite these and more( e.g. the 87' and 00' stock crash-ripoffs, the HUD theft and the half a trillion dollar savings and loan giveaway) mega-blunders and mega-thefts by various factions of U.S. and state govt. employees, citizens did see an actual decline in crime for the past 16 years. Unable to conceal this trend, and apparently incapable of conceiving( or admitting to) the actual cause of real crime(poverty brought on by low wages and joblessness), a ludicrous attempt was made to give credit for the decline in abortions; specifically Roe v. Wade. Citizens were not comatose enough to accept such flagrant nonsense as this, yet neither were we sufficiently awake to discern(or care about) the on-going explosions of prison-building along with the colossal over-bloat of cops, lawyers, prosecutors, judges, paralegals, aides, assistants, guards, bureaucrats, social workers, parole officers, and other societal parasites that massive criminalization efforts tend to create and feed. |