The Prison Industrial Complex

 

The prison industrial complex( the PIC) is the interaction of all the interests who help expand the prison system, some intentionally, some coincidentally, but all for reasons other than our safety and justice most of them influence prison growth for reasons of their own profit: some profit in terms of cash-$$, others in terms of political power, control of resources & property, or good TV ratings, Some from the business of imprisonment, others from having people out of their way, "criminalized" and locked up. It's a system where profit is more important than people, where people are split along the lines of race, gender & culture so their resources, labor, wealth & power can be exploited & monopolized, and prisons make invisible the damage done along the way. Is it a conspiracy? It have to be, each group's own interests are set up to grow the system.

 

Prisons and Jails

 

Profit from warehousing people, they warehouses the people society has no place for & discriminates against, while disappearing the neglect and abuses they suffer, Prisons are warehouses for: racism, sexism, homelessness, public and mental health crisis, environmental destruction. government & corporate corruption, and other things that make people powerless. A prison's funding is based on the number of prisoners it holds & the "security level" it provides, so "profit" comes by getting more prisoners, building more cells & units, and re-classifying prisoners as "more dangerous." Instead of eliminating injustice, this makes more room for injustice to be waged on the outside, Prisons are violence & confront problems with violence is how we solve our conflicts, send violence back into our communities, cripple our families and drain our political power...