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House prices far out of reach?
Can't afford an apartment?
Come to Prison!
"It's just like my old man told me,"
says Prisoner X, male, 37, married with two children. "Three
squares a day, a job and a place to sleep. I'm doing better
here than I ever did outside!"
Tired of the noise, the rat-race, the pressure
of urban life? Many prisons are in rural and suburban areas.
Enjoy the peace, the fresh air of a new prison. Laugh at people
hurrying along from one city to another as you take a relaxed
walk beside the highway (Keeping America Beautiful as you go).
Worried by overcrowding? It's not a feature
of all our prisons. Besides, there's always solitary confinement
which Charles Dickens enthusiastically described as a "slow
and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain." (American
Notes for General Circulation, London: Chapman & Hall, 1842)
College Tuition
Tuition costs getting you down? Don't have
$30,000 a year for the school you want? In prison you'll get
more education in four months than college could give you in
four years! We have a great selection of two-year degrees which
won't cost you anything near what traditional schools would
charge you!
Go Federal!
In 1998 there were 1,210,034 prisoners in the
USA (up from 487,593 in 1985). 91% of these (1,102,653) were
held in state facilities. What a mistake, Go Federal: less crowded
and more programs.
Prisons: Not just for men anymore!
Women! Struggling to gather a down payment
on a home? Trying to escape the family leash? Come to
Prison where the glass ceiling is being shattered right now!
Between 1980 and 1998 the number of women in state and federal
prisons rose from 12,300 to 84,427. And how about all
those locals? In 1998 approximately 64,000 women were
in local jails and over 700,000 were on probation, parole or
under community supervision. In the last decade the population
of women in US prisons increased by over 90%. (In the same period
the increase for men was 67%).
Co-ed
Most prisons are still co-ed (see sidebar on
California) and most guards are still male. Old-fashioned? Don't
let it worry you, it doesn't worry us!
Childcare?
Can't afford it? Neither can we! Again California
shows why it's pulling ahead of the other states. Along with
New York, they're establishing visiting programs and parenting
classes. Wait, these weren't established before the twenty-first
century? You must be kidding. No?
Pregnant?
Try Bedford Hills in New York state. It's the
only prison in the country where you can keep your newborn with
you--or go to Europe where similar programs are common. Don't
worry if you miss these opportunities, we think you'll hardly
miss the kids!
Prison. An Equal Opportunity Environment.
Women and minorities encouraged to apply.
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How is Prison Patriotic?
Prison building is one of the fastest growing
segments of the construction industry. Cities and counties are
racing one another to build new prisons and private industry
is taking up the challenge. Mack Theniphe, 44, sweet voiced,
dark-haired vice president of Kansas City based construction
giant, Smith and Klinehopper, was recently quoted in a national
newsmagazine:
"No one can deny the next world recession
is here. Asia and Latin America are still struggling to regain
the heights of productivity of a decade ago. Every day Europe
looks more like the 1970s; communism and socialism are drowning
the markets. The world looks to the USA to keep the international
economy on track. Construction is the bedrock of the US, and
thus the world, economy."
U.S. Prisons: an important piece of the world
economy.
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