Title: What Is The Prison-Industrial Complex? - The Good Men Project
Headings: What Is The Prison-Industrial Complex?
What Is The Prison-Industrial Complex?
It’s America’s biggest issue that nobody quite wants to talk about. Ozy Frantz unpacks the structure of getting paid to keep a lock on freedom.
What is the prison-industrial complex?
What caused the rise of the prison-industrial complex?
Who benefits from the prison-industrial complex?
Why is this a social justice issue?
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Content: So all that’s unfortunate, but there are lots of unfortunate things that aren’t social justice issues. What makes this a social justice concern and not simply a civil liberties violation like Internet censorship or consumer privacy? Because the prison-industrial complex systematically fucks over marginalized groups. People of color are far more likely to be imprisoned. Sixty percent of prisoners are people of color. One in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. Black offenders receive sentences ten percent longer than white offenders. Although all races use drugs at approximately the same rate, people of color are far more likely to be arrested; although African Americans represent 14% of regular drug users, they’re 37% of those arrested for drug use. Immigration is an issue of particular concern.