Prison Industrial Complex

n. the shared interests of government and businesses that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems.

aka: locking poor people up when they're forced to commit crimes to survive instead of addressing the fact capitalism requires a 'frictional population' (portion of people living in poverty) is a convenient solution for the government and profitable for the private prison industry.
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We Never Ended Slavery


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