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When You Require Prison Beds to Be Filled, Politicians Fill Them

Kenneth Quinnell | Corporate Greed

Photo courtesy Jason Persse

In the song, Kanye West refers to a problem that is becoming recognized as one of major importance to America's working families focused on fairness and civil rights—the growth of the private prison industry and the extreme lengths that the corporations that dominate the industry will go to pad their own profit margins, regardless of the effect that it has on families and communities across the nation.

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