Michael Jackson: They Don't Care About Us (Prison Version)
- More than 5.6 million U.S. citizens are in prison or have served time there. (Source)
- That's 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration level in the world.
- Over 25% are incarcerated for non-violent drug "crimes".
- Private corporations get paid billions of tax-payers' dollars to build and maintain prisons.
- The profits of which these companies use to bribe and lobby politicians.
- 16,000 children die from hunger everyday.
- Thousands of working-class American soldiers died in the war in Iraq.
- Over 600,000 Iraqi citizens died from the war in Iraq.
- Well over half the U.S. government's federal budget goes to Pentagon spending.
- Like the prison industry, military companies, weapons manufacturers, oil companies, etc. use their profits to lobby and bribe politicians.
- The war in Iraq cost over $310 billion so far.
- The war on drugs costs over $50 billion per year.
- 14 million children in the U.S. live in food insecure households.
- Race, money and connections determine who goes to jail, rather than guilt. (See: Tyrone's story.)
Michael Jackson is right. They really don't care.
What do you think?
