Well, I posted this because I heard an interview a couple of days ago by an expert on this system, and it surprised me how few people have heard of the program. I thought it was common knowledge. I mean, that's an Army website.

According to the interviewee, who just got out of prison and wrote 3 books about govt while he was locked up, he said that the prison systems in most states ARE now run by the feds. Like with education, transportation, religion, etc., the feds gain control by offering money to greedy officials. In the case of the prison system, prisons that take federal money technically become an organ of the federal govt, which means the military can then use the inmates in that prison for the purposes outlined in the Civilian Inmate Labor Program.

The interviewee is from Michigan, and he said that he recalled when there were 4 federal prisons in that state, and there are now more than 40. They're former "state" prisons that may still be listed as such, but for legal purposes they're federal. For the purposes of the Labor Program, that means free slave labor.

The process works this way... The federal govt makes it attractive to states to overbuild prisons as other industries within the state wither and die (jobs to Mexico and China, outsourcing, etc.). When the blood-letting of jobs reaches a point of severe negative economic impact on a state, the prisons are there to fill the void. Prisons provide work for guards and courts and all the support industries, so states do what they can to make sure their prisons continue in operation. And like any other business, prisons seek to grow, so that means more prisoners are constantly needed. More arrests and convictions for crimes that become more and more petty. 1-2% growth rate is reasonable for a prison system, so that means YOU will be arrested and have to "work off your debt to society" someday.

Anyway, some states refused to go along with the federal prison expansion program, and they are now "freer." In the states that took the federal money, "crime" is now "skyrocketing" as the gulag system cries out to be fed.

This changeover to a prison economy has a ripple effect, too. Colleges are pushing "Homeland Security" degrees (education about how to spy and torture), because that's where the jobs are expected to be in the future. Imprisonment and slave labor is the new growth industry in America.