|
Prison Industry/Prison Industrial Complex
Fetch Headings.ExtraData
Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results43 Connexions Library1 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 1 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 2 Sources Library Connexions LibraryAddiction and Control Skorodin, Morton Article 2009 Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in priso... Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers: The GEO Group Cashes In Kilgore, James Article 2012 Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut) is hardly a household name, they are a major player in the private corrections sector, combining a self righteous amorality in profiting from human misery with a ruthle... Can We Talk?: Censorship, Pedophilia, and Panic Nair, Yasmin Article 2005 Pederasty and pedophilia have been topics of debate in works about gay and straight history, given long-standing traditions of intergenerational sex between and among men and women. The right uses th... Canadian Information Sharing Service: Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1977 Canadian Information Sharing Service: Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1978 Color of Violence : The INCITE! Anthology INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (ed.) Book 2006 An anthology of critical writings demanding that we address violence against women of color in all its forms, including interpersonal violence, such as sexual and domestic violence, and state violence... Connexions: Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Serial Publication (Periodical) 1984 Connexions: Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social Serial Publication (Periodical) 1984 Convict Labor in America: Book review Ortiz, Paul Article 1998 Convict labour, like antebellum slavery, was an American way of life, a cultural practice that tied northern capitalists, plantation owners, university-trained social reformers, federal officials and ... Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits: Six-part article Fitts, Catherine Austin Article 2006 Inside the Financial World, Government Agencies and their Private Contractors Lies a Hidden System of Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking and Rigged Stock Market Riches. Dividing the Races to Benefit the Rich: Prison Populism? Washington, Linn Jr. Article 2010 Race baiting broadcast agitators like Beck and Rush Limbaugh have their audiences believing the factually flawed foolishness that the reason they are falling behind economically is because the federal... Drugs, Race & the Gulag Industry: Against The Current vol. 153 Kilgore, James Article 2011 Across the country corrections department officials and captains of the incarceration industry are in crisis. Though the nation’s over bloated prison system is far from breaking, the halcyon days of p... End the Prison-Industrial Complex, Now!: A Moral and Political Crime Urie, Rob Article 2012 In both political and moral terms, ending this prison industrial complex system is an imperative. As in the 1950s and 1960s, we must organize, mobilize and go into the streets. The existing system is ... The Fortress Economy: The Economic Role of the U. S. Prison System Lichtenstein, Alexander C.; Kroll, Michael A. Book 1990 The economic role of the US Prison System examined. 40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People: It's Not Just About Crime! Quigley, Bill Article 2015 Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people. From Iron Mines to Iron Bars Garvey, John Article 2010 Exploring some of the consequences of the long-term decline in union membership and the significant shift in membership towards public sector workers. Going up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation Hallinan, Joseph T. Book 2001 On the prisons in America, their unprofitable nature, and their ineffectiveness. Hallinan also explores the workings of mostly-white towns that host prisons of predominately black inmates. History is a Weapon: Lockdown America in 22 Minutes Parenti, Christian Audio 2001 A talk by Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police And Prisons in the Age of Crisis, about the thirty year explosion in prisons in the United States, at the Stop The ACA(American Correcti... How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System Fang, Lee Article 2013 With huge profits at stake, CCA and the Geo Group are pushing discreetly for enforcement-heavy immigration reform. How Private Prisons Profit From the Criminalization of Immigrants: Lobbying for Lock-Up Carlsen, Laura Article 2012 How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, c... Lock 'Em Up: The Prison State Yates, Michael Article 2010 Without a doubt, most of those enmeshed in the (in)justice system are not dangers to society and would not have been in it at all in a society that wasn't so racist and so shot through with every kind... Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis Parenti, Christian Book 1999 Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of... Mass Incarceration: New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both? Lewis, Nathaniel Article 2018 Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Lewis analyzes racial and class disparities in incarceration. Mass Incarceration for Profit Dolinar, Brian; Kilgore, James Article 2015 In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that ke... The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Alexander, Michelle Book 2010 Argues that Jim Crow and legal racial segregation have been replaced by mass race-based incarceration as a system of social control. The New Jim Crow: A talk Alexander, Michelle Article 2010 Nothing short of a broad-based social movement can address this problem. Such a movement has to be multi-racial: Latinos and women, especially women of color, are the fastest growing segment of the pr... A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad: Making a Break for Freedom During the Era of Mass Incarceration Moore-Backman, Chris Article 2014 This radio documentary is the third segment in Truthout's serialization of Chris Moore-Backman's Bringing Down the New Jim Crow based on Michelle Alexander's book of the same name. The series explores... The Penal State in an Age of Crisis: Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 2 - June 2009 Holleman, Hannah; McChesney, Robert W.; Foster, John Bellamy; Jonna, R. Jamil Article 2009 We may be approaching a moment where it will be possible to open up a debate on the obscenity and absurdity of the present order and its punitive social control mechanisms. Smashing the penal state is... A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America Drucker, Ernest Book 2011 Drucker sees prisons as the problem, not the solution. The Politics of Prisons and Prisoners Martinot, Steve Article 2015 They are getting ready to activate another super-max prison. Like Pelican Bay, Marion, and Florence, this prison will be dedicated to holding people in solitary confinement. They say it is for "the wo... The Prison-Industrial Complex Schlosser, Eric Article 1998 Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars "the majority of them nonviolent offenders" mean jobs for depressed regio... Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor Herivel, Tara; Wright, Paul Book 2002 Essays on the cruelty and inhumanity of the American prison system. The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax: Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009 Eisenman, Stephen F. Article 2009 The modern supermax regime is an aberration in American corrections. Based upon a penitentiary model that was dismissed as unsound more than 150 years ago, it was resurrected in the late 1970s and ’80... The Return of Commercial Prison Labour Scherrer, Christoph and Shah, Anil Article 2017 Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a sh... The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System Khalek, Rania Article 2011 The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative... Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Blackmon, Douglas A. Book 2008 An account of how African Americans were forcibly enslaved by a corrupt legal system in the southern States, from the end of the Civil War through WWII. 'Worse than Slavery': Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice Oshinsky, David M. Book 1997 After the abolition of slavery the white rulers of Mississippi developed a new system for keeping the ex-slaves in line: laws were passed to maintain white supremacy, including the system of convict l... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesCoalition to Oppose the Arms Trade COAT is a national network of individuals and organizations in Canada that began in late 1988 to organize opposition to ARMX '89, which was the country's largest weapons bazaar. COAT has continued to ... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryInside Halden, the most humane prison in the world Amelia Gentleman visits Halden, the high-security jail in Norway Gentleman, Amelia 2012 A look into the flagship prison of Norway, where recidivism after two years is only 20%, and the focus is on rehabilitation rather than punishment. Privately run prisoner transport company kept detainees schackedl for 18 days Jan, Tracy 2018 The inhumane treatment of people by a prisoner transport company puts into question the use of privately hired companies, where incentive to pick up as many detainees as possible for financial gain su... |