Prison Camps in America?
(find the authorization below)
Introduction:
I have experienced the war on drugs up close and personal with my own son. The war is not on drugs, it is a war on the youth of this country when the justice system found a way to fund the money machine called the court system and Prison Industries. The 13th Amendment to the United States, allows slavery and involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime if a person shall have been duly convicted.
Army Regulation 210-35, Effective 14 February 2005 (found at http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf) authorizes:
Summary.
"This regulation provides guidance for establishing and managing civilian inmate labor programs on Army installations. It provides guidance on establishing prison camps on Army installations. It addresses recordkeeping and reporting incidents related to the Civilian Inmate Labor Program and/or prison camp administration."
1-1. Purpose
"This regulation provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on army installations. Sources of civilian inmate labor are limited to on - and off post Federal corrections facilities, State and/or local corrections facilities operating from on-post prison camps pursuant to leases under Section 2667, Title 10, United States Code (10 USC 2667), and off-post State corrections facilities participating in the demonstration project authorized under Section 1065, Public Law (PL) 103-337. Otherwise, State and/or local inmate labor from off-post corrections facilities is currently excluded from tthis program.
1-5. Civilian inmate labor programs
a. Civilian inmate labor programs benifit both the Army and corrections systems by -
(1) Providing a source of labor at no direct labor cost to Army installations to accomplish tasks that world not be possible otherwise die to the manning and funding constraints under which the Army operates.
Appendix E
18 USC 4125(A), and Executive Order 11755
18 USC 4125(a)
The Attorney General may make available to the heads of the several departments of services of United States prisoners under terms, conditions, and rates mutually agreed upon, for constructing or repairing roads, clearing, maintaining and reforesting public lands, building levees, and constructing or repairing any other public ways or works financed wholly or in major part by funds appropriated by Congress.
Executive Order 11755, Dec 29, 1973, as amended by Executive Order 12608, Sep 9, 1987 and Executive order 12943, Dec 13, 1994, Prison Labor.