WP3 Body 3
Claim:
To a certain extent, the 13th amendment is helpful because corporations promise legislators kickbacks and other benefits.
Evidence: To ensure that revenues are high, shareholders are content, and the immoral prison industry remains entirely legal, corporations have created a lobby group, that prefers not to call themselves a lobby group (cite), called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Their goal is not to reverse the negative effects of the Thirteenth Amendment but instead to secure prison construction contracts and increase the number of incarcerated offenders. (cite). To influence the actions of the legislators who join, the funders of ALEC provide them with rewards such as campaign donations and vacations. …show more content…
This occupancy level ranges from 70 to 100 percent. When the government fails to send “criminals” to these prisons, the private prison corporation can fine them because this contract violation has resulted in lost revenue. This was the case for Arizona in 2010. When an Arizona prison failed to remain 97% full, the state was charged $3 million dollars.
Analysis:
The obligation faced in the contracts demonstrates the motivation for government representatives to enact legislations that increase the number of prisoners. It is in the better interest for lawmakers to contribute to the prison industry’s demand than it is to withdraw and fight it because it produces tax revenue that can further be used to fund community projects.
Link to thesis:
Therefore, the Thirteenth Amendment is impotent because the legislators are disregarding and blocking the voices of the people since they are economically hypnotized into obeying and persecuting the needs of the rich who are in support of present-day slave
Claim:
To a certain extent, the 13th amendment is helpful because corporations promise legislators kickbacks and other benefits.
Evidence: To ensure that revenues are high, shareholders are content, and the immoral prison industry remains entirely legal, corporations have created a lobby group, that prefers not to call themselves a lobby group (cite), called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Their goal is not to reverse the negative effects of the Thirteenth Amendment but instead to secure prison construction contracts and increase the number of incarcerated offenders. (cite). To influence the actions of the legislators who join, the funders of ALEC provide them with rewards such as campaign donations and vacations. …show more content…
This occupancy level ranges from 70 to 100 percent. When the government fails to send “criminals” to these prisons, the private prison corporation can fine them because this contract violation has resulted in lost revenue. This was the case for Arizona in 2010. When an Arizona prison failed to remain 97% full, the state was charged $3 million dollars.
Analysis:
The obligation faced in the contracts demonstrates the motivation for government representatives to enact legislations that increase the number of prisoners. It is in the better interest for lawmakers to contribute to the prison industry’s demand than it is to withdraw and fight it because it produces tax revenue that can further be used to fund community projects.
Link to thesis:
Therefore, the Thirteenth Amendment is impotent because the legislators are disregarding and blocking the voices of the people since they are economically hypnotized into obeying and persecuting the needs of the rich who are in support of present-day slave