[MeganC]

Louisiana apparently needs more help at their ‘Angola’ prison farm.

It’s their historic pattern that when they need more prison labor that they start prosecuting misdemeanors as felonies and then the sentences are absurdly severe.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/

[ssfromla]

It gets worse. When parishes have prisoners awaiting trial they ship them off to State Corrections where they are paid to keep the prisoner. Most of the time they are far from the parish and when trials come they have to ship them back at high expense for all the guards, vehicles, gas and food.

While they are in State possession 4 and 5 hrs away from home the families are burdened with expensive phone calls that goes back to the state. Families also pay black market prices for their lover ones to eat because they are starving. Cup of noodle soup $5 and guess who gets that money. They do not give them enough food so they are forced to use the comissary.

The families also endure the burden of driving 4 to 5 hrs one way to see their loved ones.

They're treated like cattle because they're being farmed as cattle.

I believe in the rule of law. But things like this has to stop because it makes people start to believe that there is rule of law from some and not others.

This sort of thing is no better than Americans in jail for the same thing others are let free because of their victim status.

And don't get me started (ok I will ) on where the drugs in jail come from. I know grandma being harassed didn't bring them. They come from guards. They make money from the drugs and set up hiarchies aka gangs within the population.