This incisive and carefully researched article was first published by Global Research more than 15 years ago in March 2008. *** Things have got worse since 2008. African-Americans and Latinos are routinely the victims of arbitrary arrest, incarceration and inhumane exploitation in America’s profit driven private prisons. California has adopted legislation which bans the private prison industry from … Continue reading The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?