Lakshmi.Buukki said: »
Because Private Prisons is big business. Its not counterproductive at all. Keeping a group poor/oppressed/incarcerated is a dual-purpose method: It gives people a group to blame when there is a problem. Blame the poor people when crime rises. Blame the poor people when taxes increase, because they're sucking up all the resources. Blame the...you get the idea....
3, It creates felons who often aren't allowed to vote and in many states where their civil rights aren't automatically restored, and there aren't many of those, the restoration process is long and arduous.
4. It transfers population out of cities and into rural areas. This makes the rural areas more populous for census and congressional district proportioning.
I have always thought we should revive the 3/5th rule for today's ineligible to vote populations.
Three-Fifths Compromise
Wikipedia
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The Three-Fifths Compromise, is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution, which reads:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.