Silence in a Democracy: Prisons for Profit - 21st Century Modern-day Slavery

Silence in a Democracy: Prisons for Profit reveals the African American, despite the abolition of slavery, trapped in a quagmire as a human labor commodity, snagged by the drug bait, whetting the wheels of a prison industry. Deliberately contrived and designed in the 1970s and burgeoning in the 1980s making billions for corporations across America as 21st century's "pot of gold" supported by public taxes and shrewdly funneled government contracts - in a democracy!