CLJ 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Penal Labour, Electronic Body Music, 18 Months
5 Nov 2016
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Clj 240 chapter 10 additional information (not in book) License plates and street signs: westville, in. The prison industrial complex (pic) is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems. The reason we have turned towards harsh sentencing, three strikes laws for low level drug offenses, and mandatory minimums is because we need the labor force to produce goods. The national crime rate has relatively consistently been going down, yet rates of incarceration do not mirror this. This has led some people to question why this is so: think back to conflict model of crime. Michelle alexander and the new jim crow laws. Prison labor and mass incarceration: corporations contracting prison labor have found a population of workers that is. Paid less than those in some 3rd world countries.
