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that that prison population
does not drop one person,
because their economic model needs that.
Prison industrial complex refers
to the system of mass incarceration
and companies that profit
from mass incarceration.
That includes
both operators of private prisons,
which get a lot of attention,
as well as a vast sea of vendors.
From SECURUS Technologies,
that supplies telephone services,
that made $114 million
in profits last year...
Those calls to family and friends are
costing a pretty penny in state prisons.
They inflate the price that they charge
the inmate and the inmate's family.
For example, in Maryland,
if you earn minimum wage,
you'd have to work an hour and a half
to afford a ten minute phone call.
There's also Aramark,
one of the big food service providers.
In more than one state,
they have been accused
that they've served.
Corizon Healthcare provides healthcare
services in 28 different states.
Multimillion-dollar contracts
for this service.
Huge incentives given to contractors
for very long contracts,
so it's actually a disincentive
to provide the service,
because you're going to be paid anyway.
One of the reasons it's so difficult
to talk about mass incarceration
in this country, and to question it,
is because it has become
so heavily monetized.
A little company called UNICOR,
that does $900 million
in business annually.
How do they do it?
Volume.
Also, prison labor.
Partnerships between
correctional industries
and private business
are a rapidly growing segment of
a multibillion dollar industry in America.
We talk about sweatshops and we,
you know, we beat our fists at people
overseas for exploiting poor, free labor,
but we don't look that it's happening
right here at home every day.
You have corporations
who are now invested
in this free labor.
It's all over.
It's from sports, uniform,
hats, Microsoft, Boeing.
Federal inmates are making
the guidance systems
for the Patriot missile system.
JCPenney jeans are made in Tennessee.
Victoria's Secret.
Anderson flooring wood products
are made in Georgia.
It's always been Idaho potatoes.
They're planted, grown, harvested,
packed and shipped by inmates.
Victoria's Secret and JCPenney
switched suppliers
once their ties came to light.
Simply put,
corporations are operating in prisons
and profiting from punishment.
Prison industries have gotten so big
that it's very difficult now
to try and do away with them.
Too much money out there,
too many lawmakers that support it
because they're being lobbied.
So, the public's got to stand up
and take it back.
It'll never get done if they don't.
And I can see it's all about cash
And they got the nerve
To hunt down my ass
And treat me like a criminal
Yeah, it is what it is
And that's how it go
Get treated like a criminal
If crime is all you know
Get greeted like a nigga
If a nigga's all you show
A public enemy
That's in the eye of the scope
The night of his arrest,
Kalief Browder was walking home from
a party with his friends in the Bronx,
when he was stopped by police.
Kalief was, um, charged with a crime,
that it turns out he didn't commit.
Then they said,
"We're gonna take you to the precinct,
and most likely,
we'll let you go home."
But then, I never went home.
- They told you that you could post bail.
- Yes, that's correct.
- $10,000.
- Yes.
- And, of course...
- I couldn't make that.
- Hmm.
- My family couldn't pay it.
There are thousands of people
that are sitting there for no other reason
than because they're too poor to get out!
We have a criminal justice system
that treats you better
if you're rich and guilty
than if you're poor and innocent.
Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.
I think what most Americans think of,
'cause they've watched so many
courtroom dramas and things like that,
they think that the criminal justice
system is about judges and juries.
Well, that's really
stopped being the case.
This system simply cannot exist
if everyone decides to go to trial.
If everybody insisted on a trial,
the whole system would shut down.
What typically happens
is the prosecutor says,
"You know, you can make a deal
and we'll give you three years,
or you can go to trial
and we'll get you 30.
So, you want to take that chance,
feel free."
Nobody in the hood goes to trial.
97% of those people
who were locked up
have plea bargain.
And that is one of the worst violations
of human rights
that you can imagine in the United States.
We have, in this country,
people pleading guilty
to crimes they didn't commit,
just because the thought of going to jail
for what the mandatory minimums are
is so excruciating.
Kalief Browder decided,
"I'm not gonna take the plea."
So, you had to choose between
being in prison for up to 15 years
and going home right then by admitting
you did a crime you didn't do.
I felt like I was done wrong.
I felt like something needed to be done.
I felt like something needs to be said.
If I just cop out and say that I did it,
nothing's gonna be done about it.
I didn't do it.
No justice is served.
What you're not taught is that
if you exercise that right to a trial,
and you are convicted,
we will punish you more.
The courts basically punished him
for having the audacity
to not take a plea deal
and to want to take it to trial.
In that time, those three years
that he was sitting there
and not being charged for anything,
that's when, um, the mental health issue
started to deteriorate
and he started to get into fights.
After a while,
I kept hearing the same thing
and I just learned to cope
with just being in there,
and that was rough.
I already knew...
After a while, I just gave up hope.
two of that in solitary confinement,
and he was a child, a baby.
You miss everything.
The fresh air, your family,
certain events. You want to be home.
When they give you an offer
to go home right then and there,
it's like, "I want to go home,"
but then you know you didn't do it,
so you don't wanna plea,
take the plea and say that you do it,
it's not right.
I was scared all day because I didn't know
where it would come from.
I don't know where any harm would come.
Kalief suffered through
so many beatings,
both by the people he was locked up with
and the guards,
he ended up attempting suicide
on several occasions.
After almost three years in jail,
waiting his trial,
they dropped all the charges,
and he was set free.
He spent two years
in an environment that
people have argued
is designed to break you within 30 days.
I mean, I can't really tell you
what's next, but...
Two years after
his release from jail,
at his home in the Bronx.
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