prison industrial complex
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Irony Incarcerated
Below is a picture of a product made by unpaid Texas prison inmates who work for extra privileges (like time off of their sentence, the ability to buy goodies at the commissary, exercise in the yard, etc.). They get rooming,… Continue reading
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Smoke and Mirrors: Essential Questions About “Prison Reform”
It is vitally important for those of us who have been fighting the prison-industrial complex PIC – and the brutalities foundational to it – to inquire more deeply into the reform measures being offered and the data that seem to… Continue reading
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The New Jim Crow: Enslaving our Future
In case you don’t have it in you to read the book–which I highly recommend as something you SHOULD read–here is a very nice overview. Do not let yourself believe that incarceration in the United States of America is doing… Continue reading
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