Add this to our enormous list of hypocrisy.

With the wealthy in power, and the culture of corruption making, "go along to get along" the policy of lawyers and all the people that get a cut, we have become a country without law enforcement against the rich. It is essential that ordinary people wake up and raise hell against this permissive practice. But the average American is too friggin' stupid to know, much less do, anything to bring justice. Our legal system makes excuses for blatant abuses of the law. There is no enforcement for corrupt lawyers. The Professional Conduct Boards are there to appease those who are aggrieved, and block action against corrupt lawyers. A revolution might help.

This subject and horror will never be covered by corporate TV. There's more substantive information on Al Jazeera, Current, or RT-TV than all the 500 plus US channels combined---- not that I have taken the time or wasted it to watch such. But we in the US live amid the most invasive and pervasive corporate and government propaganda machine ever devised, from endless mindless distractions of show biz, scandals, if it bleeds, it leads, pro and college sports, etc. It has become exactly what PR wizard, Edward Bernays recommended, "the necessary manipulation of the mass public mind". There are excellent series of documentaries to be watched at the Al Jazeera website. Take a look for a refreshing change from US corporate media.

Yes, Alabama will have to go that route. In fact, it already has. Not only will this law supply fresh inmates to private detention centers in the state – like the one operated in Decatur by LCS correctional corporation – but it will also feed an already bloated national private prison system controlled by two major corporations, CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) and the GEO group, which have a combined profit of more than $5bn a year. CCA, for example, runs the largest facility in the nation in neighboring Georgia and may potentially take a good portion of the detainees in Alabama. Charging $200 a night, this is an opportunity they'll jump at.
The difference between Alabama and adjoining states is that it is willing to go further down this track. Recently, John McMillan, agriculture commissioner, proposed that the farm work left behind by immigrant workers be supplied with inmate labor. Decatur, a private detention center about 50 miles to the north-west of Alabama, which had been unable to find jobs for inmates, has now witnessed record numbers of requests for labor (for an estimated 150 detainees a day).
So, here is how it goes. First, the state passes a harsh immigration law. Then, it detains large numbers of immigrants. Third, private prisons (LCS, CCA, GEO) receive fresh inmates. And finally, the artificially created labor shortage is supplied by the new inmates. Does this sound like modern-day slavery to anyone? from the guardian