Interesting PIC Observation

I'm going to make an observation about the prison industrial complex (PIC).

First off, on the AFROAM-L email list, I used to write that the people moaning and complaining about the PIC were focusing on the wrong thing. The existence of the PIC could go away in years if the Black people, primarily men, would stop doing the crimes that landed their behinds in jail. If that were done, there would be no money to be made in the PIC.

Having written that, I find it interesting that Illinois Congress-criters seem to be upset about the possibility of having GITMO detainees jailed there and complaining that an economy should not be created because of the existence of prisons, when many rural governments are trying to do just that. They are trying to expand the local economy by building prisons and then getting other areas to send their prisoners to them.