Dion Baker - Prison [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

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