{"id":3158,"date":"2024-06-18T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:56:30","slug":"incarceration-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/incarceration-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Incarceration Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Lyrics By: Marcy Matasick<\/em>, <em>New Mexico RGs<\/em>                                                                                                  <em>Tune: Folsom Prison Blues<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple million people<br>and many innocents<br>are doing time, and lots of time \u2013<br>time and time again.<br>What a waste of their potential<br>to make them waste away.<br>Seems like justice never was<em> just<\/em><br>in the American way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Involuntary labor<br>is slav\u2019ry \u2014 that\u2019s no lie.<br>\u2018cause slavery wasn\u2019t ended;                                                                                                    it was only corporatized.<br>Big business makes big profits<br>when people work for free<br>But the cost is 80 billion:<br>paid by you and me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pipeline to the prisons<br>Starts with kids in school.<br>Locks \u2018em up like criminals<br>For breaking minor rules.<br>Pris&#8217;ners Black or Brown<br>\u2018Cause the system\u2019s rigged against &#8217;em.<br>We need to shut it down!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We love to punish people<br>and strip them of their worth.<br>We\u2019ve got the largest                                                                                                        prison population on the earth.<br>We keep filling up the prisons<br>just to watch them grow.<br>We\u2019re incarceration nation:<br>How low can we go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HOW LOW CAN WE GO?!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics By: Marcy Matasick, New Mexico RGs Tune: Folsom Prison Blues A couple million peopleand many innocentsare doing time, and lots of time \u2013time and time again.What a waste of their potentialto make them waste away.Seems like justice never was justin the American way. Involuntary laboris slav\u2019ry \u2014 that\u2019s no lie.\u2018cause slavery wasn\u2019t ended; it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}