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'as long as profit remains an incentive to incarcerate human beings and our corporate state abounds in superfluous labor, there is little chance that the prison system will be reformed. our prisons serve the engine of corporate capitalism, transferring state money to private corporations. these corporations will continue to stymie rational prison reform because the system, however inhumane and unjust, feeds corporate bank accounts. at bottom the problem is not race, although race plays a huge part in incarceration rates, nor is it ultimately poverty. it is the predatory nature of corporate capitalism itself. and until we slay the beast of corporate capitalism, until we wrest power back from corporations, until we build social institutions and a system of governance designed not to profit the few but to foster the common good, our prison industry and the horror it perpetuates will only expand.' - chris hedges
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