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Tanja Lesničar Pučko on capitalism and prisons

The number of prison inmates has risen dramatically in the US and Europe since the 1980s, and the majority of them are poor. There is method here, writes Tanja Lesničar Pučk in her column on Dnevnik newspaper's website: "Those in power spread the following message: our streets are increasingly unsafe, there are more and more pickpockets, dealers and addicts. We must put a stop to all this, they said, and introduced the catchword 'zero tolerance'. ... But one small thing was left unmentioned in all the fuss over morals: this was also the golden age of capitalist plundering in which state money for social projects was redirected into capital projects. ... Then came the next question: what to do with all the disturbing elements, the alcoholics, drug addicts and homeless? ... Some needed therapy (which does not come for free!) and others social assistance. Prison ... was the simplest and cheapest solution. ... The prison industry flourished, and state funds were put into high walls with barbed wire instead of programmes for the jobless or other social projects. The resourceful capitalists ... then founded private jails and utility companies that sell their products and services to the state. ... Why bother modifying penal policy when you can earn so much the way things stand now?"

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