I am exhausted and fried today. I am not at all coherent. So please excuse this post. I spent the day attending the 140th Congress of Correction sponsored by the American Correctional Association here in Chicago. It’s my first and will likely be my only time attending this conference. Since it is being held in my adoptive city this year, I felt that I should attend. After all, it would provide me with a chance to better understand the Prison Industrial Complex from its headquarters.

Since I am too tired to blog about my experience today. I will refer you to the ACA’s daily blog that can be found at here. Needless to say that the experience that I will blog about in a couple of days will be different from the one that you will find on the “official” blog. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, to give you a sense of what I am contending with, here is an advertisement that was in the program book for the conference…

Motor Coach Industries Advertisement

This says it all… Picture a HUGE hall filled with hundreds of companies advertising their wares to corrections personnel and you will have a sense of the sheer wrongness of the entire affair.