| LC control no. | sh2008009529 |
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| Topical heading | Prison-industrial complex |
| Variant(s) | Industrial-prison complex PIC (Prison-industrial complex) |
| See also | Imprisonment Prisons Mass incarceration |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on the political and economic interests that advocate increased spending on imprisonment, and the belief that these interests are motivated more by profit than by the rehabilitation of criminals or the reduction of crime. |
| Found in | Schlosser, E. The Prison-Industrial Complex" Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1998 ("The U.S. Prison Industrial Complex is 'a set of bureaucratic, political, and economic interests that encourage increased spending on imprisonment, regardless of the actual need. [...] It is a confluence of special interests that has given prison construction in the United States a seemingly unstoppable momentum'") Wikipedia, Dec. 3, 2008 ("The prison-industrial complex refers to interest groups that represent organizations that do business in correctional facilities, such as prison guard unions, construction companies, and surveillance technology vendors, and to the belief that these actors may be more concerned with making profits than actually rehabilitating criminals or reducing crime rates ...The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a complicated system situated at the intersection of governmental and private interests that uses prisons as a solution to social, political, and economic problems.") WWW, Dec. 3, 2008 (prison-industrial complex; industrial-prison complex; PIC) |
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