At the beginning of 1996 Pennsylvania, a state of about twelve million inhabitants had 71 county jails, 2 dozen state prisons and 3 federal prisons. There are now over a hundred prisons of one hue or another in Pennsylvania.

The county jails hold perhaps 12,000 citizens captive. At the beginning of the year the state prisons held 32,410 citizens captive if we can believe the distortions fed to us by the Department of Corrections. Several more thousands of citizens are captive in the federal lockups.

In all, about 50,000 captives are being held in Pennsylvania. That's more than the whole population of Mifflin County, or Bedford County, or Clinton County, or 24 other Pennsylvania counties.

One out of every 240 citizens is now in prison and almost 2 out of every hundred men in Pennsylvania will spend time in captivity. But for poor men the numbers are much higher and for poor black men, fully one out of every three spends time in captivity.

The captivity business in Pennsylvania is bigger than steel, bigger than mining and bigger than most other large industries. As big as captivity is, it can't measure up to cops. We live in such a frightened society that 1 out of every 40 people in Pennsylvania is law enforcement of one kind or another. About 300,000 Pennsylvanians spy and overlord the rest of us.

Harvard is a pretty expensive university but Harvard is much cheaper than prison. To keep your son captive in a state prison like Graterford, is very expensive. When you take into account everything including medical care, "education." payment on prison construction bonds, and so so forth, the cost is about $85.00 per man per day!

It's very popular with a certain class of citizens to make captives out of another class of citizens. Each month about 340 additional captives are added to state prisons. Those who have the power use it to subjugate those who don't at the rate of 79 additional captives per week!

Captivity is a very big, very profitable business where thousands of Pennsylvanians live on the misery of captives. Like a unionized army of leaches, they live off the prisoners and off the taxpayers' hundreds of millions of dollars.

Isn't this just slavery by another name?

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