Prison-industrial complex

King October 25, 2016 Racism and the Superiority Complex As said by John Donne in his poem No Man is an Island, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.” Racism is an “island” that isolates one from their fellow human beings. What is racism? Why does the concept of racism exist? What role does the need for superiority play in the way we as humans interact with others around us? How does one’s superiority complex cause them to see themselves as better than…

needed to guard against the influence of the military industrial complex (Kraska 206). He knew there was potential for the rise of misplaced power (206). Much like the military, the criminal justice has seen the rise of an industrial complex within its system. Kraska defines an industrial complex as when the “private sector involvement and influence blends with public sector organizations and objectives,” (196). The criminal justice industrial complex views the criminal justice system as an…

Nixon and dramatically when Regan was in office. President Regan further developed the agenda of making more money for the rich by using the War on Drugs. This caused incarceration rates to increase as well as the profit of privatized prisons, due to longer prison sentences. Nothing has changed since. No one has been able to change the system so that people aren’t arrested for minor misdemeanors in order to make…

(Williams). Stanley, having felt lesser than Stella, used brute force to dominate her entirely. This creates an image of Stanley as a savage individual, but also shows that relying on brute of is a reaction to inferiority. Stanley’s inferiority complex is exemplified once Blanche became a part of his life, “BLANCHE: He acts like an animal, has an animal 's…

Further, I will argue that the United States school-to-prison pipeline is a pervasive system used in conjunction with the incarceration system, to inadvertently maintain racial and socio-economic inequality. Accordingly, in order to reverse the flow of students into the criminal justice system, grassroots campaigns…

problem that needs to be fixed. “Criminals” are sent to prison to be punished and to be prohibited from committing crimes again. Others that have gone to prison before may discourage others from breaking the law in order to avoid prison. Currently, almost two million people are in prisons and/or in jails and the majority of the people who are put in federal prisons were because of drugs. As for state prisons, the majority were put into prison because of violence. In “Trends in U.S. Corrections”…

Is the American economics and the prison system a positive or negative impact on the system? The United States currently has 2 million people incarcerated more than any country in the world. This is a big issue because most countries don 't hold more than 2 million incarcerated inmates behind bars. According to Fitzgerald J (2015) “(bop) Bureau Of Prisons housed 214,149 inmates roughly 298 percent over its rated capacity”. The bureau went over its rated capacity when imprisoning new inmates to…

criminal mind, justice system, and the treatment of those entangled in its web is a daunting task, but in the three articles “A Death in the Box” by Mary Pfeiffer, “Supremacy Crimes” by Gloria Steinem, and “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex” by Angela Davis, the reality is exposed and reveals a flawed system designed and utilized by the wealthy upper class to punish and theoretically enslave the mentally ill and minority groups. In particular, “Supremacy Crimes” details…

Discuss the four reasons why prisons are crowded. Which method of controlling prison crowding do you believe is mots important? Prisons are overcrowded for four main reasons. First, over the past decade, there has been an increase in imprisonment. Second, changes in federal and state sentencing laws require more offenders to serve longer periods. Third, there has been an increase in imprisonment for drug and violent offenses. Fourth, a prison industrial complex has emerged. The method that I…

“Creating Criminals” is an accurate representation of how the system created criminals and filled prisons. However, there were a few concepts in the book that might have been tougher to understand and are in need of visual aid. Luckily, the documentary “The 13th” is also an accurate representation of the ideas discussed in “Creating Criminals” and provides a different approach to explaining the more complex topics one might have trouble with. After reading “Creating Criminals” by Vivian Stern,…