DR. J. ALVA SCRUGGS

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ARE AMERICAN JAILS NOTHING BUT ANOTHER METHOD OF GENOCIDE ?

(WRITTEN April 4, 2008)

Genocide the American way is all encompassing and involves many supporting institutional constructs! America has more of its citizens in prison than any other country in the world today. Nearly one in four of all prisoners worldwide is incarcerated in America.

What does it take to get Americans to sit up and notice?

Germany had the most widely advertised system of extermination of a group of people. But American has outdone Germany by getting all the institutions in America involved. The incarceration of over two and one half million Americans or 1 in every 100 has spawn many supporting institutions.

These institutions include: 1. Religion-ministers can take college courses in serving inmates, 2. Higher Education-Colleges-Universities have courses and majors in Criminal Justice and management of jails and prisons. 3. The private Industry has become involved by running jail and prisons for profit, 4. Social Science Institutions have developed courses in the Schools of Social Service to train American citizens in the counseling and services to inmates. 4. Private Industry has developed testing of their new product using prisoners. 5. Medical Institution have developed agencies to obtain prisoners for medical student interns practice and testing and to get the bodies of prisoner for their Schools of Medicine. 6. Town and Counties have developed Lobbying for locating prisons and jails in there districts to elevate unemployment. 7. The TV media has entered into propaganda for making the institution of incarceration an accepted “American way of life” (e.g. MSNBC LOCK DOWN, etc), 8. The State legislatures haves added legitimacy to the unavoidable activity of male on male sex in prisons by making it possible for prisoners to marry their homosexual partners while in jail. 9. This has a method of population control of unwanted groups. When you consider that the average American family consists of two and one half children; then the two and one half male prisoners would be responsible for the production of about 5,000,000 more individuals if they were not in prison.

Of course there is a need for the incarceration and punish and rehabilitation of criminals. But America has allowed this function to evolve into an unfortunate way of doing other things. Between marijuana and movement of manufacturing to cheaper labor overseas producing extraordinarily high unemployment the jails will be costing more than all other public services combined!!

Ask did your uncle Joe, your brother little June Bug, or sister Mary Jo do so much Harm/bad that they must be jailed for life??

Dr J. Alva Scruggs, BS, MS, MA, EdD

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