Prison–industrial complex | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 21/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_complex


00:01:55 1 History
00:02:18 1.1 Late 1970s
00:04:12 1.2 1980s
00:06:42 1.3 1990s
00:08:25 1.4 2000s
00:13:00 2 The War on Drugs
00:14:11 2.1 History of the relationship between the War on Drugs and the prison-industrial complex
00:16:08 2.2 Impact of drug offense imprisonment on the prison-industrial complex
00:17:50 2.3 War on drugs and racialization of the prison-industrial complex
00:18:49 3 Economics
00:18:58 3.1 Effects
00:21:03 3.2 Prison labor
00:27:47 3.3 Investments
00:31:11 4 Immigration
00:37:53 5 Impact and response
00:38:03 5.1 Women
00:41:41 5.2 Minorities
00:42:26 5.3 Response
00:45:25 6 Reform
00:45:34 6.1 Prison abolition movement
00:46:20 6.1.1 Alternatives to detention
00:48:29 6.1.2 Critical Resistance
00:50:32 6.2 School-to-prison pipeline reform



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The term "prison–industrial complex" (PIC), derived from the "military–industrial complex" of the 1950s, describes the attribution of the rapid expansion of the US inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies for profit. The most common agents of  PIC are corporations that contract cheap prison labor, construction companies, surveillance technology vendors, companies that operate prison food services and medical facilities, prison guard unions, private probation companies, lawyers, and lobby groups that represent them.
The portrayal of prison-building/expansion as a means of creating employment opportunities and the utilization of inmate labor are particularly harmful elements of the prison-industrial complex as they boast clear economic benefits at the expense of the incarcerated populace. The term also refers to the network of participants who prioritize personal financial gain over rehabilitating criminals. Proponents of this view, including civil rights organizations such as the Rutherford Institute and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), believe that the desire for monetary gain through prison privatization has led to the growth of the prison industry and contributed to the increase of incarcerated individuals. These advocacy groups assert that incentivizing the construction of more prisons for monetary gain will encourage incarceration, which would affect people of color at disproportionately high rates.