Convicts for lease is a very lucrative business in the United States.  America spent billions expanding the prison system, not to mention the billions invested on the construction of new correctional facilities.  Under the Clinton administration the prison system business boomed for private contractors and America’s promise to keep them full and in business.

“A system of Racial and Social Control.” “the reality is that today there are more African Americans under correctional control in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the civil war began” (Alexander 8)