The Prison-Industrial Complex Goes Beyond Cops and Jails. It’s All Around Us.
Anarchism Ruth Wilson Gilmore 2022-08-02 https://jacobin.com/2022/08/prison-industrial-complex-race-capitalism-abolitionism/ Between the 1980s and the mid-2000s, the population of California’s prisons and jails grew by a staggering 500 percent. In her 2007 book, Golden Gulag, Ruth Wilson Gilmore showed that California’s mass incarceration was a not a response to violence, a drug epidemic, or even the crime rate: rather, it was a political-economic strategy that […]