Report 2 on Sudbury, “Celling Black Bodies” The perpetually growing prison system in sovereign nations, has shown dramatic increases of incarcerating women of color over the past 10 years. Commonly referred to as the “prison-industrial complex” this a system composed of state penal systems, corrupt politicians, and for-profit prison companies, which disproportionately places minorities in prison. The author of the article, “Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Global Prison Industrial Complex”, Julia Sudbury, argues how the prison industrial complex uses black women as “raw material” to increase its expansion and profitability. Throughout the article, Sudbury focuses on three main aspects to this system including the role of state governments, the global-expansion of the prison-industrial complex, and the politicians and private prison incorporations.
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During the 1990’s Britain in particular experienced increases in the prison population and as a result introduced more prison construction projects. Sudbury gives evidence for this, through a report by The Crisis in Women’s Prisons’ Press Release reporting that, “[w]hile women make up a small proportion of those incarcerated, their rates of imprisonment have multiplied faster than men’s…” (Sudbury 164). Through this, although women make up a small population of those in prison in Britain, they are still the fastest demographic to be incarcerated disproportionately. Along with the increase of women incarceration rates abroad, “[m]ultinational prison corporations have fueled this expansion through an aggressive strategy of pursuing foreign markets through sophisticated marketing techniques” (Sudbury 167). These multinational prison corporations collaborate with politicians to create mandatory minimum sentences to continue increasing their profits and
During the 1990’s Britain in particular experienced increases in the prison population and as a result introduced more prison construction projects. Sudbury gives evidence for this, through a report by The Crisis in Women’s Prisons’ Press Release reporting that, “[w]hile women make up a small proportion of those incarcerated, their rates of imprisonment have multiplied faster than men’s…” (Sudbury 164). Through this, although women make up a small population of those in prison in Britain, they are still the fastest demographic to be incarcerated disproportionately. Along with the increase of women incarceration rates abroad, “[m]ultinational prison corporations have fueled this expansion through an aggressive strategy of pursuing foreign markets through sophisticated marketing techniques” (Sudbury 167). These multinational prison corporations collaborate with politicians to create mandatory minimum sentences to continue increasing their profits and