All across America we are
witnessing a brutal, horrible attack that is taken place against the African working
class. This attack has directly led to the mass incarceration of black men;
women and children. It is an attack that
is the direct result of the FBI counterinsurgency program called COINTELPRO
The mass incarceration of the
African working class didn’t start to occur into the mid seventies near the
decline of the Black Revolution. The government knew and understood that we as
a people were unprepared for the type of anti-black low-intense-warfare
campaign (Lick) that is was prepared to lunch within our community that was systematical
planned out for the domestic colonization of our people.
Here are a few brief details that you may be interested in:
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In 2007, there were nearly 2.3 million people
locked up in prison according to reports in the United States, a place that has
the highest incarceration in the world;
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Of this figure nearly one million of those
incarcerated are members of the African working class, black men and women for
the most part and a few juvenile who have been sentenced as adults in the
system;
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Many of our loved ones are forced to live in
isolation units known as “the hole”, these units are designed to break you
psychological and psychically. You stay in these units 23 to 24 hours a day
coming out only for court, medical appointments and one hour of recreational
activity.
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The 13th Amendment to the constitution
never freed anyone it only changed the face of slavery and establish a policy
of neo-slavery in the United States of America;
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The Eighth Amendment to the constitution against
cruel and unusually punishment is violated everyday;
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While many of realizes that many of our loved
ones are in prison for what we term non-violent offenses we don’t recognizes or
understand that many politicians have passed laws that make the posse ion of
drugs and the selling of drugs a violent offense;
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Approximately fifty-three percent of those
currently incarcerated, 1.5 million have children who are minors. This means
that an estimated population of 1.7 million have an incarcerated parent. Many
of those children (approximately 25 percent) are four years old or younger.
Thirty-three percent of them reach adulthood while their parent is still locked
up. This places undue hardship on the families and the community from which
they come from.
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It has long been suspected that parental
incarceration has contributed many of the negative behaviors that influence our
children and maybe a leading cause too many of the mental health problems
associated with some school issues, unemployment and so called juvenile
delinquent behavior.
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Comrades what we need to understand is that
Prison Industrial Complex is one big
massive business that racks in billions each year, it coast approximately 80
billion a year to operate this bankrupted system and that it directly tied in Capitalist
economic that is responsible for political oppression and economical
exploitation of the African working class. Prisoners are people and need to be
respected as people and treated as human beings.
Currently there are many people who are suffering from
mental-health issues and are in need of drug treatment programs. The government
realizes this, they should they created the problem in the first place.
Rehabilitation is not a factor in the colonialist-genocidal governments plan
for the African working class. These attacks are by design and we need to
understand them.
Here in the state of Maryland there are more than 25,000
people incarcerated in prison and in jail, 77% percent of them are of the
African working class. Since the adoption of the 13th Amendment in
1865 Maryland State has executed 191 people, 157 of them being black. Since 1882, white vigilante mobs have lynched
29 people, twenty seven of them being black.
The state of Maryland makes sure that at least 50% of the prison and
jail population are black people.
Society needs to understand that
there are no rehabilitative factors when it comes to prison many of those that
have been incarcerated a will not forget are forgiving the horrors that they
have experienced behind the wall and fences of prison. This creates a
Psychological block for many of them which can handicap any future
relationships that they have with society. Prison is a world within another
world which is in a constant state of conflict. Prison changes everybody,
officers and inmates alike.
Rehabilitation does not exist and
what pass for rehabilitation is a joke, inmates receive only the basics. They
receive the basics as far as education, the standard GED class, and training in
minimum manual skills such as cooking; roofing and warehousing. These are jobs
that require manual labor and pay close to minimum wages. They keep a person in
poverty and therefore a person is most likely to return to prison.
This leads to the issue of
recidivism in America which poses a huge problem for the African working class
and other non-whites. Many of those that are paroled return to the very
environments which send them to prison in the first place. These communities
are often drug infested, offer low economical opportunities and have high
percentage of inmates assigned to parole and probations. Then there is the
issue of the financial responsibility that is placed on many of them. Many of
them have a family that they have to take care of which includes children.
These financial hardships often push them back into a life of crime. This often
is enough to place them back into prison.
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