The American prison system... incarceration nation

Lock you up throw you in the federal or state pen

But nowadays its, shifting into corporations

With the movement from public prisons to privatization

With their ticker symbols on the New York, Stock Exchanges

3 to 4 letters, it spells out a profit to investors

Put your money in and double it the trend in

America’s to continue, to utilize the prisons

For their so-called corrections… in the 80's

The drug war spiked the prison population real crazy

Congressional laws, 1986 crack versus powder kicks in

You got crack? Get a longer sentence with conviction

Prison rates nearly tripled since then

If you're black 1 in 3 chance you'll be in prison

And that's ridiculous, America is number one in the world

For locking people up check the figures

Cats selling drugs get locked up... full rights taken away

While you sit in a cage waiting the day

For your release, step in the world that we live in

They legally can treat you like a slave due to your conviction

Look at the 13th amendment, you thought this nation

Eradicated slavery with emancipation proclamations?

Incarceration is the new word for slave system prison labors

23 cents minimum wages

In federal prison it lower in the state pen

You thought slavery was over? They repositioned it

Into a billion dollar industry

And politically they strip away your right to vote no full citizenry

What are the options?... the job market?

Fill out another job application just so it can be discarded?

The streets watching and the cops watching

Fill out the warrant documents kick in the door with no-knocking

The prison rates skyrocket... throw away the key until its rusted

And they sell it to the public with the word justice

It’s disgusting, when you see the numbers

Broken down into social class and color