Although there is a lot of talk about police violence and the discrimination here in the U.S., you don’t really hear about what goes on in prisons, who is involved when it comes to prisons (other than prisons).
Before we begin we must define the prison industrial complex (p.i.c). The P.I.C. is “a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems” (Critical Resistance). It is a “complex” because it goes just beyond the restoration or establishment of justice; it has a lot of racial and socioeconomic ties. Because incarceration was, and some say continues to be highly racialized, This complex has historical ties.
Before we begin we must define the prison industrial complex (p.i.c). The P.I.C. is “a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems” (Critical Resistance). It is a “complex” because it goes just beyond the restoration or establishment of justice; it has a lot of racial and socioeconomic ties. Because incarceration was, and some say continues to be highly racialized, This complex has historical ties.