Prisons in America is a massive scam and so tightly linked with war on drugs. American government is like the Mafia boss while the City officials acting like he

Prisons in America is a massive scam and so tightly linked with war on drugs. American government is like the Mafia boss while the City officials acting like henchmen. The first time I read about "civil forfeitures" I felt like someone kicked me in the balls. But here is my favorite "Prison Project" story. Kaiser Steel started a mining project in California in 1942 or so called "Eagle Mountain". A town was built for the workers (around 4k) and it was a very busy town until 1980s. Environment regulation killed the mining business and Kaiser left the place in ruins. State of California then spend millions of dollars to convert the ghost town into a correctional facility in 1988. State could not budget it properly and one insane prison riot that got few people killed the prison was closed. This prison was privately operated and not sure how many people benefited by the whole scam. CA then decided to convert the abandoned mine into a giant landfill (the mining was problematic for environment but somehow the landfill was not!) and after spending few more millions of our money the project of abandoned too or perhaps it is still being planned on paper. The best part is however today the entire ghost town is closed and there are some people appointed just to make sure no one trace-passes over a town that no one wants to live into. I am not even sure who owns the land, the buildings and who is spending the money to keep it fenced etc.