SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sandow Birk
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Sociology 1 november 3 lecture 9. Where do prisoners come from: from people defined as surplus and redundant : the unemployed, the poor, the uneducated, young men of color . Where do they go: warehouse, abandonment: cut loose from social care but investment in warehousing process. Organized system to not take care of you. 3 consequences of the prison industrial complex: 1. Racism and poverty combined lead to vulnerability to premature death. Poverty hurts, injures, and kills-just like crime. j. reiman. 1 in every 65 deaths of a black man is in the hands of a police officer: 2. Competes directly with other modes of human development like health, job training. California spends approximately ,000 a year on each inmate, but only spends ,500 a year for each student. Since 1960 higher education spending decreased by 13% but prison spending increased 436% State pays ,000 for each uc student, but ,000 per each inmate.
