Topic: Cca

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28: Black Don't Crack
1:32:13 - 1:37:43

28: Black Don't Crack

Truth in Sentencing, Prison Industrial Complex

The 1994 Crime Bill's "truth in sentencing" provision is explained, which provided $12 billion to states to build prisons on the condition that inmates serve 85% of their sentences. This created a financial incentive for mass incarceration and the rise of private prison corporations like CCA. The segment notes the hypocrisy of wealthy investors profiting from the expansion of the carceral state.