The Prison Industrial Complex Is The Economic...

The prison-industrial complex is the economic interrelation between private prisons and various public and private job sectors that have become dependent on the expansion of the private prison system. A partial list of these sectors includes construction, pharmaceuticals, and law enforcement, including probation and parole. The prison-industrial complex also runs a cheap inmate labor force for various corporations. Approximately 2,266,800 adults are currently imprisoned in America. In addition to those numbers, more than 4 million citizens are on probation which means they are being monitored by the Government (Blades, J., Norquist, G., 2014). The State of Texas, which sentenced 400 teens to life sentences shows an example of how serious mass incarceration is, and the current conditions in America’s prisons are unconstitutional stating that 70,000 prisoners are raped every year. According to national data from the US Department of Justice, over 7.2 million people are on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole. Furthermore, the US criminal justice system consumes $212 billion a year and employs 2.4 million people, more than Wal-Mart and McDonald s combined, the nation s two largest private employers† (Perkinson, 2010). According to the World Prison Brief in 2009, the United States had the highest incarceration rates, with 743 inmates per 100,000 people. In a 2003 report, Roy Wal msley noted that â€Å"more than three-fifths of countries (60.5%) have rates below 150 perShow MoreRelatedTracing Theoretical Approaches to Crime and Social Control: from Functionalism to Postmodernism16559 Words   |  67 Pagespersonal vulnerability, which can be a product of social interaction within the public sphere of one‘s community (Wyant, 2008:43). Wyant provides the reader with the conceptualization that one‘s perception of crime has been created by a power higher than the individual. Individual beliefs surrounding crime are not produced at primary levels; instead, they are produced through mechanisms of the powerful within the public realm of a capitalist structure. These mechanisms of power (i.e. the media andRead MoreOrganizational Behaviour Analysis28615 Words   |  115 PagesLevels of Analysis: The SOGI Model Limitations of the SOGI Model The Individual Level The Group Level The Organisation Level The Society Level Interactions between the Levels Morgan’s Metaphors The Metaphors in Brief The Machine Metaphor The Organic Metaphor The Brain Metaphor Cultural (Anthropological) Metaphor The Political Metaphor The Psychic Prison Metaphor Flux and Transformation The Dominance Metaphor Using the Metaphors References and bibliography Workshop Aims Workshop Objectives Reading Lists