From reading the two articles, “A High-Security, Low-Risk Investment: Private Prisons Make Crime Pay” by Gragg and “How Lockup Quotas and ‘Low- Crime Taxes Guarantee Profits For Private Prison Corporations” from In the Public Interest, and watching the Quiet Rage: Stanford prison experiment, I have come to the conclusion that private run prisons do encourage dehumanization and exemplifies the Us/ Them binary. The power, the badge, and the dark sunglasses all signify authority and the seeming control over other human beings even though we are all the same. According to BBC’s documentary humans can be dehumanized in prisons simply through stripping and giving them prison uniforms. Prison is the fastest way to break the human spirit in
