@cqxmrvcoy Your perception is off base and extremely bigoted. I see young Blacks attending college and living a prosperous existance. This country discriminates against people of color and then you want to get upset when we voice our displeasure against discrimination and murder. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ELIMINATE UNJUST CONDITIONS.
@@TheBrownSpartan Fox hates BLM and all things black. Trump added one black to his cabinet. He stuck a brain surgeon in charge of HUD. What a disgusting bunch of “leaders” we have. Keep voting D and R and keep getting what you’ve got. On a personal note I accept responsibility for what my fathers did to yours and I combat this very real move towards Jim Crow laws. In fact, I’m starting a movement to abolish this government plus start a new party.
@@thetruthchannel4634 I am an American who is totally disgusted with the quality of leadership in both parties. The rich and the powerful ambitions are to keep Americans divided. Meanwhile, You have Amazon, the world's second largest corporation, paying very little federal taxes. WE must stay united and fight today's illicit behavior, no matter who perpetrates the wrongful acts. I wholeheartedly agree with you about the need for an additional party.
Charles Cummings Sr i started talking about abolishing this government about a year ago. I have NEVER had a person state that they opposed abolishing it. If we band together, and ask our brothers to disregard the totally corrupt media, we can do what the Declaration of Independence says to do. WHENEVER THIS GOVERNMENT FAILS......IT IS THE DUTY OF THE PEOPLE TO ABOLISH IT AND START A NEW ONE. Everyone agrees. We are so far gone that THEY will try military action against a peaceful abolishment. They'll use false flags. No matter what, they won't want to give up the system that is hell bent on making it a two class system. I will put away my disgust for Donald Trump to join hands with his supporters. They've been inside my house. It's true. They left a door open that ALWAYS stays closed just to show me they could reach me. Of course they can reach me. But they can't kill us all. The justice system is as insane and corrupt as anything else. When I read your comment, I thought I wrote it. That's rare, carry on good man. Stick to the truth and don't attach yourself to any particular entity. They are devious beyond what we can imagine and well funded too. Peace
A big factor in the increase in prisons, prisoners and private prisons was a 1992 report entitled "The Case For More Incarceration" that used bogus or manipulated data and now discredited theories, made the arguments that imprisoning more people reduces crime and that there should be less parole and harsher sentencing as well as more offenses being subject to prison sentences. The report greatly influenced policies such as mandatory max sentencing and "3 strikes" rules and also influenced the notorious 1994 "Crime Bill" That report was authored by a shady, insidious and notorious figure in US law enforcement with several stints as A.G., the ignoble Bill Barr. Yes, THAT guy.
Keep laying back n waiting for our messaya,,,why do you think they closing jails in NEW YORK CITY SLAVERY IS BACK PLANTATION IS YOUR JAIL HOUSE those vaccine gonna b your radar to locate you.
I work in a mental health facility in a VERY red state. I also work most often in the ICU of our hospital, what I call the high risk ward. These are patients with more serious mental disorders such as schizophrenia, rapid cycling bipolar disorder, and Frontal lobe TBI (traumatic brain injuries). Another common issue are people who took spice, which was first meant to be a pot substitute, but has morphed into a drug that can permanently damage the users brain. Being in the field, what I see most often is people leave the hospital because they have reached their baseline. Basically, they aren't going to get any better than they already are. They are not able to function in the world with the disorder they have, but have no other option but to be released. They are usually caught doing something that got them brought to the hospital last time, but this time, they are going to prison. We live in a society that doesn't seem to see a difference between the actions of a mentally ill person, and a person trying to cause trouble. These people, most very good people who are also very sick, spend their lives bouncing between mental hospitals and prisons. We have no other places for them. They are a part of our society we seem to seen as valueless.
Very sad and very true. You can tell a lot about a society by how it treats the most vulnerable, children, poor, sick, aged, mentally ill, disabled....
This is a great explanation of an insidious practice. How you're able to talk in such detail and at such length about this without constantly sobbing is beyond me.
I love the non biased knowledge in these videos. Although I’m not learning much new information, it is so much better to hear it all put together and connected without having to read a bunch of different sources.
I agree. I feel these videos go into further and more refined detail of issues that we kind of already know (many of us know at least). I do occasionally learn things I didn’t know at all as far as the specifics go of a general issue. As they say, “The devil is in the details.”
These videos are so professional. When she did the origins of race (can’t remember if that was the exact title) I knew these were very professionally done videos. It’s rare I come across individuals that can objectively cover that issue with well done research outside of myself/my own studies. Danielle is amazing
@@tweedyara Sometimes it is really hard not to "commit a crime", especially when the crimes are vaguely defined - like how Danielle described "vagrancy" as something that would send someone to prison. In Hong Kong today, China has established a vaguely defined law against talking sh** about China. Then there are just things that are crimes in some places that are well defined but that shouldn't be considered crimes, like abortion, cannabis use, etc. (though that's subjective and hotly debated, I admit)
"Only 8.5% of prisons are private" still too many Also great job Danielle and your 'Why Were Africans Slaves' video was good as well shame the comments had to be closed
Like county and state prisons are more humane and better? They are still violating basic human rights. They still have quotas to meet on things like solitary confinement, so prisoners are put in there for the very smallest offenses.
4:30 My cousin's grandfather had an incident like that (I'm fuzzy on the details but): they were on a family vacation in Texas, driving several cars. The police (or sheriffs) stopped and arrested them. They had to help with the harvest, and once that was done, they were released without proper charges or court hearings. They weren't held for too many days. (I'll ask for clearer details again.)
I encourage you to look into State run prison labor institutions such as ACI and business that thrive off of prisoner labor such as Hickman Farms. Business are profiting from 10 cent prison labor operating under the false flag business model of reducing recidivism.
Here bc of the SciShow Space ad for this channel at the end of today's upload. I can't believe you've done 2 whole seasons without me. How am I just hearing about this now? This is exactly the kind of content I find interesting. Well done! -Jake
You speak really fast but you do cover a lot of info in such a short timeframe I love it. I have to rewind multiple times in the video but I’d rather do that Vs. not click on the video because it says 30 minutes. Thank you for your hard work I appreciate it
We’ll said, also Nixon’s war on drugs, listing cannabis, as a dangerous drug, which was a poor person choice of drug, yet Alcohol which is very addicting when abused, once a addict, always a addict, a bonanza for the liquor industry which was controlled by the mafia/organized crime along with gambling casinos, during prohibition, which made them very wealthy……
Privatizing prisons only incentivizes filling more built "vacancies." Its asinine. Too many people think old school systems were all bad, when in fact, many changed systems (Constitutionally based policing included) were much more public friendly before they were screwed with, in the name of modernization.
Unfortunately my dad is in federal prison he tells me all the time that they would NEVER make a lockup raw in federal prison because the government wastes tons of money on them.. he says where he is, basically feels like an adult daycare
For me to find critical information that you have given I had to search through public libraries with countless hours and days of reading. Although there is much more to the subject your short synopsis can lead someone to search more. What I have taken from this wonderful video is humans are not evolving they are just going in circles. And maybe with information humans might level up. Thank you.
Right there with you. I’ve also spent countless hours on this over a few years. The war on drugs, in my opinion, was just an exemption of Jim Crow and it was our own government that flooded LA with crack to fund their contra wars. They knew minorities would be hardest affected. It all comes down to greed and maintaining control. The private prisons might be a small percentage of overall prisons but they make billions in profit so they spend millions to lobby. They planned all this when they wrote the clause in the 13th amendment “except as punishment for a crime” unfortunately most people don’t know or don’t care unless they’ve personally been affected in some way
Very Informative Great Work. I Love When Ppl Who Are In Your Position Try And Inform Others On Historical Matters That Shaped Society To Be The Way We Are Today. Simple, Short,Sweet,and Informative 💪🏾
I know it doesn't contribute to the why, but it would have been great to touch briefly on "lockup/bed quotas“ in the relationship between states and private prisons.
Wonderful! This was fascinating! Please do a separate one on mental health care. I remember when all of the state facilities were closed (1980s?). I volunteered in a ‘halfway’ [they could never survive without special care] house for severely impaired people. They were given a chance at a family like setting. I also helped out at an ‘equine therapy’ facility [horses are a wonderful way of soothing frightened people].
I think it would be amazing to talk about the shift of mental health care from institutions to community-based supports, highlighting the intent of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (props to JFK) and its actualization over the past 56 years. The issue being that there has been a decrease in funding and prioritization for community based programs and a great number of people who need our community's support are either imprisoned as a result of their mental illness or don't have the supports available to be successful. For example, we have a regional center in our community that struggles to find enough facilities to discharge its patients after they are rehabilitated and ready to discharge.
State mental institutions in Texas at least share funds with the state prison system. We got the same food, soap, laundry detergent, clothes. We also had commissary and canteen, and most of the LVN's and staff watching each ward were former correctional officers. Patients who had been to both said it is very much "prison without the guards".
@@jessicah3450 when they were released in the 80s, many people couldn’t cope with outside society (they’d never been taught how) and ended up in the prison system. I guess it’s similar to Texas but I think worse, as the former patients were mixed into the prison population. The private prisons were well poised to make a lot of money with the expanded population.
Thank you for this very engaging and eye opening video! And for the works cited list! An episode on the origins of the prison abolition movement would be really great. I live in Pittsburgh, PA and know a number of prison abolitionists, and their works just constantly challenges and astonishes me. We have long, hard road to trudge in unpacking our prison system and creating a system of justice that rebuilds both the communities affected by crime, but also those affected by the absence of the incarcerated. If you're into reading lists, please add Danielle Sered's "Until We Reckon" to your's. I'm about halfway through, and it's really mind opening.
Such a good overview - so glad I discovered your videos! As a reflection on this talk and my professional experience; I believe we need to revise the system. We need a system for helping those with mental illness and addiction problems (since many are one and the same). A system for those who commit non violent crimes to be removed from society and be shepherded/reformed to a healthier and productive way to participate in society before being released - with long term guidance as they re-enter society. Then a separate system for violent criminals and those who have committed serious crimes - that in order to protect society they need to be separated . I would hope that the government and private sector can work together to bring about change.
I would be interested to read others thoughts about real solutions to end overuse of incarceration, how we can learn from past mistakes, and what methods currently are showing promising benefits. Too many people turn to drugs and alcohol to self medicate their mental health problems and personal problems. We know this but as health professionals we don’t have adequate resources especially in the low income communities so we must send them back to the environment that makes them sick. We need to stop expecting some nebulous other people or government to solve problems of society - the solutions need to evolve from you and me.
As a former substance abuse counselor, and a person in long term recovery from both addiction and trauma I totally agree. I don't understand why the criminal justice system is still so archaic.
Thanks for such a concise and simple explanation of this. This history is important for all Americans to not just know about, but to truly understand. Well done. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you so much for covering this topic! I am currently reading Angela Davis's book (referenced in your video) and this was useful to further my understanding of privatized prisons. Keep up the good work!
This is a interesting article this video should be shown to everyone. This would explain very much on why the U.S.A has so many private prisons in this country 🙄.
...same contractors/plans....Some of the students in our area have complained about several different schools, different districts, looking like prisons.... Also, some districts use the one of the same vendors/food providers as some of the prisons, e.g. Sysco. Great to see our school bureaucracy and prisons thinking along the same lines....Not!!!
erintreez sysco is a common food delivery service. Most fast food places use sysco as well. It doesn’t really speak to the quality of the food anymore than if your groceries are in a bag from walmart, since they sell a variety of food of different quality.
Child abuse is a major cause of people in prison. Me and my brother went through the same abuse - he spent a few years in prison. My ex grew up in even worse child abuse (every kind of abuse) She ended up with over 8,000 years. She is in prison more to protect people from her.
@Irishriden2005 Children who grow up in hell never "get over it" Me I have over 20 personalities and they are really messed up from all the abuse. The worst things is I have no way to know what they do when one takes over me. They also block memories so I can't remember important things.
This really helped me get a grasp of what the hell this debate was even about. I saw AOC, Bernie, and Warren make calls to abolish private prisons, but I didn't understand what the issues were exactly. Thank you!
The whole point of the 13 amendment exception about involuntary servitude for convicted criminals was undoubtedly put there to allow southern states to have a free labor source.
When i see a topic im interested in and i hit play...then you come on....Im Super Happy because I know you about to tell it like it really was. So thank you.
I got my lesson about the system by getting a traffic ticket that I didn't even deserved to bigin with. We trust the system so much, that we fail to question it even in the event when it turns against us, unless if it's too obvious. Most people declare themselves guilty and pay the fine. Or hire a lawyer to represent them in court. I would probably had done so. But, I didn't, and the experience was eye opening. Later, I even record that the person who hitted my car wasn't even the same I saw in court. By the way, it wasn't even a real accident, but a car crash in a parking lot where my car was the one most affected at the right front. I saw depressing stories of people not able to pay fines and being sent to jail. Hopefully things had changed since then.
Part of the problem is and has to be, as private prisons multiply, their lobbying efforts gain money, allies and the ability to keep themselves from being regulated by anyone they don't care for. It becomes impossible to reform or especially end them because of our legislative access system.
This young lady covered why prioritizing prisons is unfair. If a corporation is running the prison, then no one fairs to have good living conditions adequate health care, or fair well in a court system
There are 2-3 things that are fundamentally true in the reasons why there are so many people in prison. 1. Education. The way we have been teaching in the last two generations are intrinsically undermining our country and that is by design by the ruling class. We haven’t been teaching by phonics in our language. No language arts classes that teach what a noun, verb or adjective is. How to construct sentences. Writing essays leads to critical thinking. 2. Cursive writing. If you can’t read cursive, you won’t be able to read the original constitution, bill of rights or the amendments. Penmanship is also critical. Next we’ll be back to signing documents with an X. 3. Materialism. Entitlements. Another word for slavery.
Countless individuals for whatever reason had and still incorrectly think that jail & prison are the same thing. They aren't the same thing at all. They're two different places with different purposes.
I absolutely love the video hostesse! She is one of the best minds making info available, in relation with historical content, to the public on RUclips!
Yeah the whole idea of psychiatric help is a tough question but it's something that we still need to find a solution for because well like it or not we only know a small amount about psychiatric mental health there is much about the mind that still unknown and yes things like depression, bipolar and schizophrenia there are many who do live good healthy lives but far too many fall somewhere in the gaps and their conditions are beyond what our medication can deal with or the medication that we have are sometimes too powerful so we need to find a solution.
Fun fact the state of Oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate per person in the world. One in every fourty are African American and one in every 140 are white. Historically we have been the state with the highest female incarceration.
I’m so appalled at how we as a free nation have treated different races, woman, and poor people in general! Wow are we really as free as we think we are! Plus people are not meant to be treated as slaves or as though one race means more than another! I can’t believe how seriously horrible this world has been and how long it is taking to make every one be free and equal! I can’t believe some of the stuff people let happen and still happen! That’s why I’m horrified by the way this world is so unfair and justice needs to be fair and equal!😭🤬😱
My Only Thing With Private Prisons Is That If They Are Less That 85% filled The State Have To Pay The Difference and So That Means That Ppl Will Be Or Are Being Sent To Jail For Longer Terms Than They Are Supposed To Or That Ppl Are Receiving False Sentences For The Numbers and That's Not Justice That's Just Greedy and Evil..SMH
As soon as the politicians, FBI, and CIA quit bringing drugs into the country, then there will be fewer drug addicts, drug dealers, and non-violent drug offenders. These prisoners numbers will go down significantly.
If you look up state prisons and in particularly alabama, the wardens get to keep all the extra budgetary money that's not spent on prisoners. They have no incentive to rehabilitate, but only to incarcerate.
This series is divine. So much is a available to help folks understand how the devil is using society to destroy people and has been doing so for centuries under the 'law'.
A Rational, logical, and fact based research showing how Privatizing Prisons is bad.... *Ben "PRIVATIZE ALL THE THING$$$!" Shapiro would like to know you're location*
It's not privatization that makes things bad, it's the people that work for the state taking advantage of their power to influence things there and make illegal profit from it that makes things bad. If a business tries to do this shit without the state backing it up, it fails, but with the state always having it's back, this kind of shit is expected to happen
@@brianpso NO. Any Prison for profit IS BAD. Because regardless HOW or WHO runs it. Once Prison is another business, them putting more humans in them becomes a #1. Profit instead of justice is wrong.
@@SoniaSephia all businesses have to make money somehow, otherwise you have the state stealing people's money without their consent in order to have state prisons. Also making money doesn't mean using prisoners to do so, you are the one thinking that, I never said it.
@@SoniaSephia bottom line: some things just shouldn't be privatized (prisons, education, healthcare). I never understood Libertarians. They never blame corporations but always blame the government even when the interests intersect. No matter how many points you make you'll never get through to someone with that type of cognitive dissonance.
Googl Selzmiyinfo why do you think education and healthcare shouldn’t be privatized? Most of the problems that those things have come from the government.
Excellent video. Glad you changed your content. Really appreciate the change. I execute research and this is a reliable source that supports other sources. Stay the course. Shalom.
we, in the US, think of criminality as a failure of the individual, rather than a failure of the society that led that person to commit crimes. This topic is ripe for an interpretation from marxist theory- under capitalism everything becomes a commodity. The humanity of prisoners doesn't matter, the profit does. Capitalism is based on exploitation. That being said, there are a lot of factors, along with class, that illustrate the portrait of this issue & the intersectional way you guys approached this topic is excellent.
@@brianpso our form of crony capitalism is based on the impossibility of trying to achieve infinite gain on finite resources. The bottom line isn't the most important thing, it's the ONLY thing. That's AMERICAN CAPITALISM.
@@googlselzmiyinfo9040 Our form of crony capitalism is when random people in Washington are allowed to decide what consensual transactions people can and cannot perform. This sort of centralized planning and lack of freedom is exactly what socialism promotes.
@@brianpso no you and that guy are clueless. What Lefties are pushing for is basically a Nordic model. Nordic models are operating in Social Democracies not Democratic Socialist countries. Social Democracies are capitalist. They are NOT considered "socialist" just because they are welfare states with healthy safety nets. Try again.
Danielle is the most engaging host ever. Her tone and cadence are perfect for teaching!
It's called being fluent in english.
I came through the comments before posting the same! She is very good!
The internet is exposing so many unjust things that was hidden in the shadows. Go tech.
Not so much hidden as was ignored.
@cqxmrvcoy Your perception is off base and extremely bigoted. I see young Blacks attending college and living a prosperous existance. This country discriminates against people of color and then you want to get upset when we voice our displeasure against discrimination and murder. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ELIMINATE UNJUST CONDITIONS.
@@TheBrownSpartan Fox hates BLM and all things black. Trump added one black to his cabinet. He stuck a brain surgeon in charge of HUD. What a disgusting bunch of “leaders” we have. Keep voting D and R and keep getting what you’ve got. On a personal note I accept responsibility for what my fathers did to yours and I combat this very real move towards Jim Crow laws. In fact, I’m starting a movement to abolish this government plus start a new party.
@@thetruthchannel4634 I am an American who is totally disgusted with the quality of leadership in both parties. The rich and the powerful ambitions are to keep Americans divided. Meanwhile, You have Amazon, the world's second largest corporation, paying very little federal taxes. WE must stay united and fight today's illicit behavior, no matter who perpetrates the wrongful acts. I wholeheartedly agree with you about the need for an additional party.
Charles Cummings Sr i started talking about abolishing this government about a year ago. I have NEVER had a person state that they opposed abolishing it. If we band together, and ask our brothers to disregard the totally corrupt media, we can do what the Declaration of Independence says to do. WHENEVER THIS GOVERNMENT FAILS......IT IS THE DUTY OF THE PEOPLE TO ABOLISH IT AND START A NEW ONE. Everyone agrees. We are so far gone that THEY will try military action against a peaceful abolishment. They'll use false flags. No matter what, they won't want to give up the system that is hell bent on making it a two class system. I will put away my disgust for Donald Trump to join hands with his supporters. They've been inside my house. It's true. They left a door open that ALWAYS stays closed just to show me they could reach me. Of course they can reach me. But they can't kill us all. The justice system is as insane and corrupt as anything else. When I read your comment, I thought I wrote it. That's rare, carry on good man. Stick to the truth and don't attach yourself to any particular entity. They are devious beyond what we can imagine and well funded too. Peace
Private prison... an idea that seems straight out of a dystopian story...
Everyday is a dystopian story if you're a descendant of the enslaved and/or displaced in the U.S.
@@MariaCJ ikr, what a sick country, claiming to be part of the "first world"...
watch "bali treat mental illness like animal documentary"
This isn’t a story but real life.
Legal slavery
A big factor in the increase in prisons, prisoners and private prisons was a 1992 report entitled "The Case For More Incarceration" that used bogus or manipulated data and now discredited theories, made the arguments that imprisoning more people reduces crime and that there should be less parole and harsher sentencing as well as more offenses being subject to prison sentences. The report greatly influenced policies such as mandatory max sentencing and "3 strikes" rules and also influenced the notorious 1994 "Crime Bill"
That report was authored by a shady, insidious and notorious figure in US law enforcement with several stints as A.G., the ignoble Bill Barr. Yes, THAT guy.
They do it to children as well and won't let him go when they've gotten better. It's about money and people's lives mean nothing anymore.
Dam shame!!!!
Thank you for this info. This show keeps getting better and better.
Keep laying back n waiting for our messaya,,,why do you think they closing jails in NEW YORK CITY SLAVERY IS BACK PLANTATION IS YOUR JAIL HOUSE those vaccine gonna b your radar to locate you.
I work in a mental health facility in a VERY red state. I also work most often in the ICU of our hospital, what I call the high risk ward. These are patients with more serious mental disorders such as schizophrenia, rapid cycling bipolar disorder, and Frontal lobe TBI (traumatic brain injuries). Another common issue are people who took spice, which was first meant to be a pot substitute, but has morphed into a drug that can permanently damage the users brain. Being in the field, what I see most often is people leave the hospital because they have reached their baseline. Basically, they aren't going to get any better than they already are. They are not able to function in the world with the disorder they have, but have no other option but to be released. They are usually caught doing something that got them brought to the hospital last time, but this time, they are going to prison. We live in a society that doesn't seem to see a difference between the actions of a mentally ill person, and a person trying to cause trouble. These people, most very good people who are also very sick, spend their lives bouncing between mental hospitals and prisons. We have no other places for them. They are a part of our society we seem to seen as valueless.
Very sad and very true. You can tell a lot about a society by how it treats the most vulnerable, children, poor, sick, aged, mentally ill, disabled....
American society is negative
Has this not changed since the Dickensian era? This is sad
It got even worse when Regan emptied out mental hospitals and just let the sick out on the streets. Can anyone guess what happened to those people?
Ppl actually bring children into this world for this..... okay!
Love the Show. Keep up the good work.
This is a great explanation of an insidious practice. How you're able to talk in such detail and at such length about this without constantly sobbing is beyond me.
You addressed private prisons the same must be the issue for state prisons.
Most are looking for solutions so we can’t allow emotions to cloud our mind
Thanks so much for this video!
Prison should never be for-profit.
I love the non biased knowledge in these videos. Although I’m not learning much new information, it is so much better to hear it all put together and connected without having to read a bunch of different sources.
I agree. I feel these videos go into further and more refined detail of issues that we kind of already know (many of us know at least). I do occasionally learn things I didn’t know at all as far as the specifics go of a general issue. As they say, “The devil is in the details.”
These videos are so professional. When she did the origins of race (can’t remember if that was the exact title) I knew these were very professionally done videos. It’s rare I come across individuals that can objectively cover that issue with well done research outside of myself/my own studies. Danielle is amazing
Short answer: the 13th Amendment never abolished slavery.
Gnorts Mr Alien dont commit a crime and you won’t be a slave idiot... not that hard
@@tweedyara You're saying the justice system never punishes innocent people?
Gnorts Mr Alien rarely
@@tweedyara So you admit it happens. Congratulations, you've invalidated your own argument lol
@@tweedyara Sometimes it is really hard not to "commit a crime", especially when the crimes are vaguely defined - like how Danielle described "vagrancy" as something that would send someone to prison. In Hong Kong today, China has established a vaguely defined law against talking sh** about China. Then there are just things that are crimes in some places that are well defined but that shouldn't be considered crimes, like abortion, cannabis use, etc. (though that's subjective and hotly debated, I admit)
"Only 8.5% of prisons are private" still too many
Also great job Danielle and your 'Why Were Africans Slaves' video was good as well shame the comments had to be closed
What if they lying
Like county and state prisons are more humane and better? They are still violating basic human rights. They still have quotas to meet on things like solitary confinement, so prisoners are put in there for the very smallest offenses.
Private prisons do the same thing state prisons do and are regulated by the same government bodies
Is that statistic based on prison campuses or based on prison population?
Love this channel. You do your research and very informative.
I didn't know this sad and scary bit of history. You guys are doing great work!
Spot on!! Great presentation on a very complex issue!
This is incredibly informative and enlightening - thank you for this
4:30 My cousin's grandfather had an incident like that (I'm fuzzy on the details but): they were on a family vacation in Texas, driving several cars. The police (or sheriffs) stopped and arrested them. They had to help with the harvest, and once that was done, they were released without proper charges or court hearings.
They weren't held for too many days. (I'll ask for clearer details again.)
I am sorry but I have to ask,are you black?
That is too crazy!
Thanks for the fascinating video! You're doing a wonderful job.
No more privatize the gains and publicize the losses. If you want a prison as a business, you should be held at the highest standard of the law.
I encourage you to look into State run prison labor institutions such as ACI and business that thrive off of prisoner labor such as Hickman Farms. Business are profiting from 10 cent prison labor operating under the false flag business model of reducing recidivism.
The highest standard would be to abolish it; it's modern day slavery.
@@willmartinez5496 agreed
Here bc of the SciShow Space ad for this channel at the end of today's upload. I can't believe you've done 2 whole seasons without me. How am I just hearing about this now? This is exactly the kind of content I find interesting. Well done!
-Jake
I love this channel so much. Thank you for being so informative with interesting topics!
The Narrator is fantastic!!! I loved this presentation. Thank you!
I hope wherever Danielle is, she's getting some coin and support. Such a great presenter
You speak really fast but you do cover a lot of info in such a short timeframe I love it. I have to rewind multiple times in the video but I’d rather do that Vs. not click on the video because it says 30 minutes. Thank you for your hard work I appreciate it
very informative and concise. love it!!!
We’ll said, also Nixon’s war on drugs, listing cannabis, as a dangerous drug, which was a poor person choice of drug, yet Alcohol which is very addicting when abused, once a addict, always a addict, a bonanza for the liquor industry which was controlled by the mafia/organized crime along with gambling casinos, during prohibition, which made them very wealthy……
Privatizing prisons only incentivizes filling more built "vacancies." Its asinine. Too many people think old school systems were all bad, when in fact, many changed systems (Constitutionally based policing included) were much more public friendly before they were screwed with, in the name of modernization.
Unfortunately my dad is in federal prison he tells me all the time that they would NEVER make a lockup raw in federal prison because the government wastes tons of money on them.. he says where he is, basically feels like an adult daycare
mommymode1985 A show that shows you the inside of state prisons. It is designed to scare you
@Adrianna Acedia lol! You think that it is a damn daycare like this guy? You're a fool.
For me to find critical information that you have given I had to search through public libraries with countless hours and days of reading. Although there is much more to the subject your short synopsis can lead someone to search more. What I have taken from this wonderful video is humans are not evolving they are just going in circles. And maybe with information humans might level up. Thank you.
Right there with you. I’ve also spent countless hours on this over a few years. The war on drugs, in my opinion, was just an exemption of Jim Crow and it was our own government that flooded LA with crack to fund their contra wars. They knew minorities would be hardest affected. It all comes down to greed and maintaining control. The private prisons might be a small percentage of overall prisons but they make billions in profit so they spend millions to lobby. They planned all this when they wrote the clause in the 13th amendment “except as punishment for a crime” unfortunately most people don’t know or don’t care unless they’ve personally been affected in some way
I'll give em about 2 billion years. Ppl might grow up by then.
Glad I found this channel. Excellent content.
Excellent video. Beautifully organized and articulated.
Very Informative Great Work. I Love When Ppl Who Are In Your Position Try And Inform Others On Historical Matters That Shaped Society To Be The Way We Are Today. Simple, Short,Sweet,and Informative 💪🏾
I know it doesn't contribute to the why, but it would have been great to touch briefly on "lockup/bed quotas“ in the relationship between states and private prisons.
Wonderful! This was fascinating! Please do a separate one on mental health care. I remember when all of the state facilities were closed (1980s?). I volunteered in a ‘halfway’ [they could never survive without special care] house for severely impaired people. They were given a chance at a family like setting. I also helped out at an ‘equine therapy’ facility [horses are a wonderful way of soothing frightened people].
I think it would be amazing to talk about the shift of mental health care from institutions to community-based supports, highlighting the intent of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (props to JFK) and its actualization over the past 56 years. The issue being that there has been a decrease in funding and prioritization for community based programs and a great number of people who need our community's support are either imprisoned as a result of their mental illness or don't have the supports available to be successful. For example, we have a regional center in our community that struggles to find enough facilities to discharge its patients after they are rehabilitated and ready to discharge.
God Bless you for the voluntary work you do, I would like to say Thank You 💕😊
State mental institutions in Texas at least share funds with the state prison system. We got the same food, soap, laundry detergent, clothes. We also had commissary and canteen, and most of the LVN's and staff watching each ward were former correctional officers. Patients who had been to both said it is very much "prison without the guards".
@@jessicah3450 when they were released in the 80s, many people couldn’t cope with outside society (they’d never been taught how) and ended up in the prison system. I guess it’s similar to Texas but I think worse, as the former patients were mixed into the prison population. The private prisons were well poised to make a lot of money with the expanded population.
Thank you for this very engaging and eye opening video! And for the works cited list! An episode on the origins of the prison abolition movement would be really great. I live in Pittsburgh, PA and know a number of prison abolitionists, and their works just constantly challenges and astonishes me. We have long, hard road to trudge in unpacking our prison system and creating a system of justice that rebuilds both the communities affected by crime, but also those affected by the absence of the incarcerated. If you're into reading lists, please add Danielle Sered's "Until We Reckon" to your's. I'm about halfway through, and it's really mind opening.
Really great video! Keep it up!
Such a good overview - so glad I discovered your videos! As a reflection on this talk and my professional experience; I believe we need to revise the system. We need a system for helping those with mental illness and addiction problems (since many are one and the same). A system for those who commit non violent crimes to be removed from society and be shepherded/reformed to a healthier and productive way to participate in society before being released - with long term guidance as they re-enter society. Then a separate system for violent criminals and those who have committed serious crimes - that in order to protect society they need to be separated . I would hope that the government and private sector can work together to bring about change.
I would be interested to read others thoughts about real solutions to end overuse of incarceration, how we can learn from past mistakes, and what methods currently are showing promising benefits. Too many people turn to drugs and alcohol to self medicate their mental health problems and personal problems. We know this but as health professionals we don’t have adequate resources especially in the low income communities so we must send them back to the environment that makes them sick. We need to stop expecting some nebulous other people or government to solve problems of society - the solutions need to evolve from you and me.
As a former substance abuse counselor, and a person in long term recovery from both addiction and trauma I totally agree. I don't understand why the criminal justice system is still so archaic.
Thanks for such a concise and simple explanation of this. This history is important for all Americans to not just know about, but to truly understand. Well done. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you so much for covering this topic! I am currently reading Angela Davis's book (referenced in your video) and this was useful to further my understanding of privatized prisons. Keep up the good work!
Private schools, yes, private prisons, no. There are just too many ways it can involve corruption.
Beautiful voice, clear cadence and diction!!!And, thanks for this video. Very informative. It highlights the urgent need for prison reform!!👍🏽💯
That is corruption in our faces
As a non american, this is an eye opening topic
As an American this is soul crushing
Thank you for another engaging and informative video!
Thank you for these wonderfully explained videos.
The lack of empathy seems to have always been rampant in the US
This is a interesting article this video should be shown to everyone. This would explain very much on why the U.S.A has so many private prisons in this country 🙄.
The picture of the prison with a fence around it , looks like school buildings I've seen near highways
Prisoners get better food than the majority of public school students.
@@ananasupreme Prisoners get better education than our children. They actually learn life skills that should have been taught in school and at home...
...same contractors/plans....Some of the students in our area have complained about several different schools, different districts, looking like prisons....
Also, some districts use the one of the same vendors/food providers as some of the prisons, e.g. Sysco.
Great to see our school bureaucracy and prisons thinking along the same lines....Not!!!
erintreez sysco is a common food delivery service. Most fast food places use sysco as well. It doesn’t really speak to the quality of the food anymore than if your groceries are in a bag from walmart, since they sell a variety of food of different quality.
@@mrsbrown8910 thank you for clarifying.
Child abuse is a major cause of people in prison.
Me and my brother went through the same abuse - he spent a few years in prison.
My ex grew up in even worse child abuse (every kind of abuse) She ended up with over 8,000 years. She is in prison more to protect people from her.
@Irishriden2005 Children who grow up in hell never "get over it" Me I have over 20 personalities and they are really messed up from all the abuse. The worst things is I have no way to know what they do when one takes over me. They also block memories so I can't remember important things.
@@cyclenutKelly at Warrior Bride Ministries can help you. She has an amazing staff that specializes in what you are dealing with. It's free btw!
What do you mean 8000 years
@@WilliamBurton827 My ex committed hundreds of felonies some took years to figure out. She was very messed up.
This really helped me get a grasp of what the hell this debate was even about. I saw AOC, Bernie, and Warren make calls to abolish private prisons, but I didn't understand what the issues were exactly. Thank you!
"Land of the free." LOL Whatever.
There's obviously more context to that
@@bakgammon and more lies
@@bakgammon injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. The same can be said to freedom. We shall never be free until we are *all* free
Land of the free with highest incarceration rate of imprisoning it's own people in the world!
Take yo ass overseas and you’ll be begging to come back! Seriously just don’t do anything you’re not supposed to do and you won’t go to jail DUUUUH
Thank you sister for sharing this video
The whole point of the 13 amendment exception about involuntary servitude for convicted criminals was undoubtedly put there to allow southern states to have a free labor source.
This video was really well researched and put together; I learned so much! Thanks for sharing :)
Danielle... you speak so well! I wish I had that talent.
When i see a topic im interested in and i hit play...then you come on....Im Super Happy because I know you about to tell it like it really was. So thank you.
Thanks sis I needed this Information
She knows her stuff! Learning so much from her
I got my lesson about the system by getting a traffic ticket that I didn't even deserved to bigin with.
We trust the system so much, that we fail to question it even in the event when it turns against us, unless if it's too obvious.
Most people declare themselves guilty and pay the fine. Or hire a lawyer to represent them in court. I would probably had done so. But, I didn't, and the experience was eye opening.
Later, I even record that the person who hitted my car wasn't even the same I saw in court. By the way, it wasn't even a real accident, but a car crash in a parking lot where my car was the one most affected at the right front.
I saw depressing stories of people not able to pay fines and being sent to jail.
Hopefully things had changed since then.
No, they're worse
Why your show got cancelled i will never understand. The country needs you now more than ever
Thankyou for your output stay bless n keep it moving plus you are intelligent as hell. Beautifully spoken
Part of the problem is and has to be, as private prisons multiply, their lobbying efforts gain money, allies and the ability to keep themselves from being regulated by anyone they don't care for. It becomes impossible to reform or especially end them because of our legislative access system.
Thank you. Well done.
Thank you for the education
Great video very good information.
Definemensional Harmontics is definitely an answer to the prison problem education for prisoners.
This young lady covered why prioritizing prisons is unfair. If a corporation is running the prison, then no one fairs to have good living conditions adequate health care, or fair well in a court system
Great episode, thank you!
There are 2-3 things that are fundamentally true in the reasons why there are so many people in prison. 1. Education. The way we have been teaching in the last two generations are intrinsically undermining our country and that is by design by the ruling class. We haven’t been teaching by phonics in our language. No language arts classes that teach what a noun, verb or adjective is. How to construct sentences. Writing essays leads to critical thinking.
2. Cursive writing. If you can’t read cursive, you won’t be able to read the original constitution, bill of rights or the amendments. Penmanship is also critical. Next we’ll be back to signing documents with an X.
3. Materialism. Entitlements. Another word for slavery.
That was very informative. Love that color blue and and book shelves in the backround, Never seen that before now.
Countless individuals for whatever reason had and still incorrectly think that jail & prison are the same thing. They aren't the same thing at all. They're two different places with different purposes.
I absolutely love the video hostesse! She is one of the best minds making info available, in relation with historical content, to the public on RUclips!
Yeah the whole idea of psychiatric help is a tough question but it's something that we still need to find a solution for because well like it or not we only know a small amount about psychiatric mental health there is much about the mind that still unknown and yes things like depression, bipolar and schizophrenia there are many who do live good healthy lives but far too many fall somewhere in the gaps and their conditions are beyond what our medication can deal with or the medication that we have are sometimes too powerful so we need to find a solution.
This is reprehensible!!! Must end for profit prisons!!!
Qht am I just finding out about this channel?
Awesome episode. Keep up the good work.
I loved your video about, " Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans?" Thank you!
Cool outfit Danielle! Great vid! 😊
I know right! I love her blouse 😍
Wonderfully informative.
Good video
Fun fact the state of Oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate per person in the world. One in every fourty are African American and one in every 140 are white. Historically we have been the state with the highest female incarceration.
So what's wrong with that?
@@leonardu6094 jim crow
I have that same little perfume holding necklace as you! I love that thing
Excellent video. God bless!
WOW is all i can say. We knew it wasn't right but didn't really know. So I appreciate the knowledge. Thank you
Why is it always about money? This doesn't surprise me! Excellent video!
I’m so appalled at how we as a free nation have treated different races, woman, and poor people in general! Wow are we really as free as we think we are! Plus people are not meant to be treated as slaves or as though one race means more than another! I can’t believe how seriously horrible this world has been and how long it is taking to make every one be free and equal! I can’t believe some of the stuff people let happen and still happen! That’s why I’m horrified by the way this world is so unfair and justice needs to be fair and equal!😭🤬😱
My Only Thing With Private Prisons Is That If They Are Less That 85% filled The State Have To Pay The Difference and So That Means That Ppl Will Be Or Are Being Sent To Jail For Longer Terms Than They Are Supposed To Or That Ppl Are Receiving False Sentences For The Numbers and That's Not Justice That's Just Greedy and Evil..SMH
Incarcerating convicts is the government’s responsibility.
Until they are STOPPED.
As soon as the politicians, FBI, and CIA quit bringing drugs into the country, then there will be fewer drug addicts, drug dealers, and non-violent drug offenders. These prisoners numbers will go down significantly.
Or at least turning an eye!
If you look up state prisons and in particularly alabama, the wardens get to keep all the extra budgetary money that's not spent on prisoners. They have no incentive to rehabilitate, but only to incarcerate.
This series is divine. So much is a available to help folks understand how the devil is using society to destroy people and has been doing so for centuries under the 'law'.
You the best pbs host
Arizona is huge on private prison so much so that California has a contract with Arizona to house their prisoners. So much money in private prisons.
A Rational, logical, and fact based research showing how Privatizing Prisons is bad....
*Ben "PRIVATIZE ALL THE THING$$$!" Shapiro would like to know you're location*
It's not privatization that makes things bad, it's the people that work for the state taking advantage of their power to influence things there and make illegal profit from it that makes things bad. If a business tries to do this shit without the state backing it up, it fails, but with the state always having it's back, this kind of shit is expected to happen
@@brianpso NO. Any Prison for profit IS BAD. Because regardless HOW or WHO runs it. Once Prison is another business, them putting more humans in them becomes a #1. Profit instead of justice is wrong.
@@SoniaSephia all businesses have to make money somehow, otherwise you have the state stealing people's money without their consent in order to have state prisons. Also making money doesn't mean using prisoners to do so, you are the one thinking that, I never said it.
@@SoniaSephia bottom line: some things just shouldn't be privatized (prisons, education, healthcare). I never understood Libertarians. They never blame corporations but always blame the government even when the interests intersect. No matter how many points you make you'll never get through to someone with that type of cognitive dissonance.
Googl Selzmiyinfo why do you think education and healthcare shouldn’t be privatized? Most of the problems that those things have come from the government.
nice video!
A true extension of JIM CROW
Excellent video. Glad you changed your content. Really appreciate the change. I execute research and this is a reliable source that supports other sources. Stay the course. Shalom.
You should have way more views.
great show...great shirt
we, in the US, think of criminality as a failure of the individual, rather than a failure of the society that led that person to commit crimes. This topic is ripe for an interpretation from marxist theory- under capitalism everything becomes a commodity. The humanity of prisoners doesn't matter, the profit does. Capitalism is based on exploitation. That being said, there are a lot of factors, along with class, that illustrate the portrait of this issue & the intersectional way you guys approached this topic is excellent.
Capitalism is based on free trade without coersion, that's all. You trade something you have for something I have and we both go our ways.
@@brianpso our form of crony capitalism is based on the impossibility of trying to achieve infinite gain on finite resources. The bottom line isn't the most important thing, it's the ONLY thing. That's AMERICAN CAPITALISM.
@@googlselzmiyinfo9040 Our form of crony capitalism is when random people in Washington are allowed to decide what consensual transactions people can and cannot perform. This sort of centralized planning and lack of freedom is exactly what socialism promotes.
@@BruceMagnus this guy gets it
@@brianpso no you and that guy are clueless. What Lefties are pushing for is basically a Nordic model. Nordic models are operating in Social Democracies not Democratic Socialist countries. Social Democracies are capitalist. They are NOT considered "socialist" just because they are welfare states with healthy safety nets. Try again.