Prison-industrial complex

Prison Industrial Complex The prison industrial complex and the military industrial complex have a similar relationship, they generally support one another. They are both linked by military, corporation, and the government which are growing stronger (86). The prison industrial complex focusses on control, to control the low-income people and using them for profits. The prison industrial complex is building more prisons, so they can keep profiting out of the prisoners because they are being used as cheap labor workers. People of color are targeted and arrested and sent into prison, while corporation are making money out of poor people. (Lecture 12:26) School to Prison Pipeline School to prison pipeline is when they have a police officers…

In “What is the Prison Industrial Complex”, Rachel Herzin shares her strong opinions in regards to the prison system and all that is attached. The article provides overwhelming evidence that will make you second guess your beliefs. It highlights the core elements of the prison such as criminalization, media, surveillance, policing, courts and prisons. Though, she had compelling and strong details, I would have to disagree that the US needs Prison Industrial Complex Abolition. According to the…

Prisons all over the country are starting to feel the pressure now more than ever. Why? Primarily, because prisons are becoming overcrowded with inmates. Many of whom are people of color. This is happening primarily because of the profit many corporations gain from high incarceration rates. The prison-industrial complex incorporates this notion that politicians' "tough on crime" ideology is simply racially profiling and targeting people of color and throwing them in prison for long sentences.…

America is one of the greatest countries in the world, however, America is riddled with problems. One of the most controversy problems in America is the prison industrial complex. The prison industrial complex is a term used to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems. The prison industrial complex allows private prisons to profit off inmates, thereby giving the…

Rachel Herzing defines "Prison Industrial Complex" (PIC) as, “a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to what are, in actuality, economic, social, and political ‘problems’” (Herzing). She means that the prison industrial complex protects the people who gain control through structural privileges. It helps the government, industry, and people who have power in our society. This unequal power…

Angela Y. Davis explores the prison industrial complex in depth concerning the treatment of men and women and how their treatment extends to their gender and race. The article opens up with a story told from an inmate, on just how cruel, demeaning, and sickening the prison and system is by comparing the medical care to death. The story is the premise for this article which looks into different forms of punishments which haunts the inmates. The prison system is rapidly growing with more and more…

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…

Texas’s’ Prison Industrial Complex • Introduction The prison industrial complex can be defined as the rapid expansion of the inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. This is not a new phenomenon in our countries history, however, in recent decades the exponential growth of the inmate population in Texas and at a national scale signifies a disturbing trend. As prisons proliferate in U.S.…

Chapter Reflection – Chapter Two – “The Prison-Industrial Complex” Colorado College, Colorado Springs – May 5, 1997 In reading Chapter Two, it brought back memories of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, it was a very sad moment in my young life at the time. My family had just moved to Washington, DC that summer from Decatur, Alabama. Furthermore, my whole family was shaken from that kind of violence against a Baptist in a Black community. My Mother was not…

points) From the Lecture: 1. What is the Prison Industrial Complex and how does it generate profit? Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) is private industry that run prisons by using a business model. PIC’s main goal is to generate as much profit as possible. That explains the ongoing expansion of prison. It is not different than any other hotel chain business. PIC generate profit from the prisoners. They receive money for each inmate and the longer they stay in the more money the PIC would make. …