Plantations

More splashing from sunday's hike.

The logical result of prisons-for-profit. I guarantee you this: Prisons-for-profit have lobbyists in Washington. They lobby Congressmen for harsher sentencing guidelines and laws, which put more people in prison for longer, thus increasing the profitability of their industry.

As a result, the US has the highest incarceration rate, per capita, in the world.

It's encouraging that this is now finally making headlines, but the fact remains that prisons are still run for profit, and that The Industry keeps lobbyists in our legislatures in order to maintain and increase their hold on their plantations (there, I said it).


Gioacchino Rossini was born on this day, in 1792.