SOCI 2615H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Critical Criminology, Structural Marxism, Legal Realism
24 Mar 2019
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State & federal prison population by offense, 2014. Population under control of the u. s. corrections system, 1980 and 2013. The prison-industrial complex is not a conspiracy, guiding the nation"s criminal-justice policy behind closed doors. It is a confluence of special interests that has given prison construction in the united states a seemingly unstoppable momentum (schlosser, 1998, p. 54) No health benefits, unemployment insurance, or workers compensation to pay. New leviathan prisons are being built on thousands of eerie acres of factories inside the walls. Prisoners do data entry for chevron, make telephone calls for. Twa, raise hogs, shovel manure, and make circuit boards, limousines, waterbeds, and lingerie for victoria"s secret, all at a fraction of the cost of free labour . Privatized services run through prisons: example: prison food services, also, private dental, medical and psychiatric services, privatized services involved in parole and probation (ex. monitors)
