Within the last few decades, the United States has gradually shifted from being a military industrial complex to a prison industrial complex. Having pulled out of Vietnam, no longer threatened by the former Soviet Union's communism, and without being engaged in any other major war requiring foot soldiers, the US has significantly altered its economic course. Equipped with technologically superior wartime capabilities, instead of directing a major portion of the country's production of goods and services toward sustaining an armed military, the US economy is now being energized through the building and maintaining of prisons. Reaping profits from incarcerating people has become big business in America. Investments in penitentiary construction and associated enterprises are high.
Suburban dwellers have business related employment.
Corporations now reap benefits from contracted out inmate labor. Part of an overall systemic master plan, this modern day form of enslavement is clearly on the rise. A case in point can be seen with the state of California. Since the mid 1980s, California has built more than 20 penitentiaries and only one university. Authorities recognized long ago the failure of the state's educational system to prepare students for higher learning.