In fact, only one of the 10 plaintiffs in the case is white. Even without the racial disparity, the law criminalizes a behavior that many studies suggest requires treatment, rather than imprisonment. You can understand the rage of prison activists against companies like CCA, the Corrections Corporation of America, that are actually profiting from locking up all these supposed dangers to society. Knowing that private prisons get paid by the head, it is in their best interest to pass up parole opportunities and keep prisoners in longer. The profit motive becomes the only motive.
Most people are shocked to discover that prisons are big business.
It's infuriating to realize that state and federal monies are used to subsidize corporations. In some cases, a double subsidy is in place. State funded companies such as Unicorp, which manufactures furniture that is sold to schools and other government agencies at inflated prices, are employing inmates to build their furniture without the added burden of paying for benefits or maintaining an 8-hour workday. Statements such as this appear blind to the correlation between these two statistics. Laws are being passed at all levels of government that are locking up people of color at an alarming rate.