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Obama Administration Dramatically Increases the Budget for Mass Incarceration
During his State of the Union Address in January President Obama claimed that he “will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products.”
What if “anywhere in the world” means inside U.S. prisons?
With widespread spending cuts already scheduled for public assistance programs like Medicare and Medicaid and yet another deficit anticipated in FY 2013, President Obama has managed to request a 4.2% increase in allocations to the Federal Bureau of Prisons operating budget, one of the largest of any federal agency, which would bring its total operating resources to more than $6.9 billion. Oddly enough, the President’s budget is being submitted despite a national decrease in incarceration rates for the first time since 1972.
Moreover, the Obama administration has for the third consecutive year set a record in the number of undocumented immigrants detained and deported—nearly 400,000—from the U.S. during FY 2012. Nearly half of detainees are housed in privately owned or operated detention centers. Just two companies—the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group (GEO)—account for 70% of the “private detention” market.
vickie
September 6, 2012 at 4:58 am
keep your ass out of trouble you don’t have to go to prison
edward wright
September 6, 2012 at 9:07 am
ditto,vickie
also if the potus didn’t give money to the fed jail nothing would get done and people would still complain he’s damned if he do….
d-rhyme
September 6, 2012 at 1:15 pm
Put whites in prison for slavery and native genocide you pathetic excuse for a human being.
DaTruth
September 6, 2012 at 9:13 pm
@vickie & edward:
Ignorant @ss simpleton negroes will go along w. & excuse anything fr this prez. He could reinstitute chattel slavery & many jes like u would HAPPILY line up to support & defend that also as u r hauled off n chains. Blks & browns r locked up @ record rates b/c of institutionalized racism while whites r given passes. Instead of our blk prez & blk atty gen’l working to right the injustices of this criminal unjust system, our blk prez increases the prison budget so that mass incarceration continues unabated.