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By Reverend Edwin C. Sanders II, Senior Servant and Founder, Metropolitan Interdenominational Church

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Private Prisons Eat Our Humanity

Somebody figured out, once again, how to build a machine that can quantify the life of an African-American man and make money off him. They figured out how to use the value of his body to fuel their machine. They learned how to drive its engine, and how to turn a profit. They call it prison privatization. I call it mining black gold, and I have watched black gold be mined from the streets of my community every day.