The Prison-Industrial Complex

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/12/the-prison-industrial-complex/4669/
Date Written:  1998-12-01
Publisher:  The Atlantic
Year Published:  1998
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX11999

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 regions and windfalls for profiteers.

Subject Headings

• Capitalism & Crime
• Correctional Institutions
• Crime & Punishment
• Criminal Justice System
• Human Rights Violations
• Incarceration
• Penal System
• Prison Industry/Prison Industrial Complex
• Prison Privatization
• Prisons