Does Slavery Still Exist in America?

The prison system in America is set up as a new form of slavery. From an economic perspective, the American Prison System is set up to earn money for the owners of private prisons. The privatization of prisons forces them to operate in a way that maximizes profit for the owner, usually by taking advantage of minorities. The American prison system taking advantage of minorities has resulted in black people in America being more than 5x as likely to be incarcerated than white Americans. If we analyze some of the reasons that we have a primarily black prison population you’ll see that the…