Speakers discuss prison labor, racial profiling, excess force by police and political prisoners.
Events began Tuesday, May 8, and concluded Thursday, May 10. Immediately following was a speech on the prison industrial complex. At the flagpoles in front of the Administration Building, Dr. Chuck O'Connell, UCI professor of sociology, the growing number of businesses who utilize prison labor in their production of goods. Such companies include Victoria's Secret and McDonald's, according to O'Connell. He said that police are harsher on minorities when it comes to drug enforcement than on Caucasians.