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The Prison-Industrial Complex
Publication year:
1999
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: During the last 20 years, almost a 1,000 new prisons and jails have been built in the United States in order to house an inmate population increasingly composed of nonviolent offenders. The author believes the unstoppable momentum of prison construction is due to "a set of bureaucratic, political, and economic interests that encourage increased spending on imprisonment, regardless of actual need (p. 4);" in other words, the prison-industrial complex. Prison overcrowding provides opportunities for those looking to bring jobs to economically depressed regions. Topics addressed include: the liberal legacy; big business; bed brokers and man-days; the Bobby Ross Group, U.S. Corrections Corporation, and Wackenhut Corrections; and the mega-prison. A sequel to this article is called "When They Get Out" by Sasha Abramsky (Accession number 015807).