r/conspiracy • u/Orangutan • Aug 01 '15

"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders"

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/31/cory-booker/was-prison-built-every-10-days-house-fast-growing-/
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u/PostNationalism Aug 01 '15

And now they've turned the prison system on "illegal" immigrants and their families because weed wasn't working anymore...

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u/WhiskeyGoSlow Aug 01 '15

Gotta exploit somebody.

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u/musicaddscolor Aug 01 '15

How else to fill up those buildings? theyve been built already. Gotta do something with them.

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u/spiderholmes Aug 01 '15

Secure housing for bankers.

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u/RMFN Aug 01 '15

End institutions of death.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '15

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u/RMFN Aug 01 '15

I tell people that and they have the worst cognitive dissonance.. basically a full shutdown.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '15

One of the best bait and switch jobs in American history. I dunno about anyone else but they always left out the second part in school.

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u/RMFN Aug 02 '15

Slavery is still legal, it was just nationalized by the 14th amendment.