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yes, because then they can recover your unpaid tax money from the subservient middle class. IMHO, that's the whole point of the US prison system and the drug war, etc that supplies it with victims. It's how the rich convince the middle class to pay the taxes for the poor, while at the same time cleaning the streets of "undesirables". It's just one evolution of slavery. There are many other modern adaptations of the slave trade, like closed source software, for instance.

Well, at least you have free food and lodging! Isn't better to be in prison if we can have free stuff? :D

And god rest your soul if you resist their attempts to cage you...