Meet The Billion-Dollar Industry That Literally Banks On Human Misery

In the United States, we have a lot of pride in country. And why not? We are an exceptional country indeed. Case in point: We rank #1 (USA! USA! USA!) when it comes to, uh … incarceration (USA? USA? USA?), locking up one-quarter of all the prisoners on the planet. It’s actually become a big-money…

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Maz Ali

Mar 21, 2014

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