prison industrial complex

12 posts

Private prison executives revel in profiting off ICE arrests in earnings calls

Second-quarter earnings calls reveal how GEO Group and CoreCivic are championing and profiting from Trump’s mass deportation agenda

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6 Min
By: Eliza Dewey

The corporations that profit off the prison system and incarcerated people

Bianca Tylek’s new book, “The Prison Industry,” reveals the companies that benefit from incarceration: “People can now understand how deeply entrenched and normalized corporate greed and exploitation have become”

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4 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

‘Anything is possible’ in the fight for climate justice

In a wide- ranging discussion with Prism, Professor David N. Pellow links climate injustice to the prison industrial complex, militarism, genocide, and ecocide, arguing people have the power to combat the institutions that harm us and our planet

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Cooked in custody: Four incarcerated people describe dangerous conditions in Texas state prisons

In this collection of testimonials, Kwaneta Harris and others incarcerated in Texas state prisons describe their unsuccessful daily attempts to evade being cooked in custody

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11 Min
By: Kwaneta Harris, Xandan Gulley, Marissa Potts, Lanae Tipton

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Sun on my skin 

I’ve been incarcerated for nearly 19 years, and during my time inside, I’ve often wondered whether the sun would feel better on the other side of the fence

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

A notorious shuttered prison grapples with preserving—not celebrating—America’s dark carceral history

Eastern State Penitentiary’s CEO discusses the Philadelphia institution’s mission and vision

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10 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

The prison in 12 landscapes

Prism looks at the landscapes that prisons shape to better inform our understanding of the carceral continuum

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11 Min
By: Tamar Sarai, ray levy uyeda

Breaking the silence: Survivors speak out on rampant sexual violence in prison

Four formerly incarcerated women reflect on the abuse they suffered by correctional officers. The Adult Survivors Act offers them a chance for justice

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20 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Drug use in prison endangers rehabilitation efforts

Rampant, unaddressed drug use in prison kills what little hope there is to restore already vulnerable populations

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4 Min
By: Heather C. Jarvis

‘If my life is to matter, then mail must matter. Support must matter.’

Timothy James Young has been wrongfully incarcerated on death row since 1999. Letters line his path to freedom

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4 Min
By: Timothy James Young

Intentional design can lay a blueprint for abolition

Prisons are designed to be punitive, but intentional design can create spaces that resist systemic biases and the carceral impulse to punish

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6 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Prisons control incarcerated people’s relationships and their access to intimacy

American culture promotes the idea that love conquers all, but the reality is far more complicated for incarcerated people and their loved ones

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11 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

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