Moving Target: A Decade of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 14, 2008
ANNOTATION: The need to "permanently delegitimize, destabilize, and dismantle" the prison industrial complex (PIC) in the U.S. is explained. Sections contained in this report include: introduction; ten years by the numbers -- imprisonment, crime, policing, and spending over the last decade; profiting from prisons -- a risky proposition for both corporations and communities; policing -- accountability, federalization, and surveillance; the PIC in action -- an analysis of the criminalization of drug use, poverty, mental illness, and immigration; prevention -- we know what works to strengthen communities; and conclusion -- looking ahead.
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