SOCIOL 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Private Prison, Mass Incarceration
7 May 2019
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Private prison (birth: high return for rich inds if they put their money in prisons make a lot of inds money, no political, social, or economic reason for inds to not go to jail. Put inds to work (for basically free: why would they want this to stop, crime pays steady flow of $ Lots of restriction for welfare: how they spend their money multiple id, not allowed to have spouses living w them. Seen as having carefree life, which angers a lot of inds: and why they don"t want to pay. War on drugs and welfare engaging in race politics: your view about it can"t be discussed without talking about race, our attitudes of welfare mirror what we think about race. If inds are insensitive about welfare, if they are exploiting the system, its reflective about how they think about race.
