Our Mission is Transfomation – At GrowingChange.Org we are transforming closed prisons into sustainable farms and educational centers to reclaim opportunities, attain education, and sustain personal and environmental wellness for troubled youth, returning. Mass Incarceration in the US. Prison–industrial complex. USA incarceration timeline The term "prison-industrial complex" (PIC) is used to attribute the rapid expansion of the US inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies.
The term is derived from the "military-industrial complex" of the 1950s. Such groups include corporations that contract prison labor, construction companies, surveillance technology vendors, lawyers, and lobby groups that represent them. Activists[who?] Have argued that the prison-industrial complex is perpetuating a flawed belief that imprisonment is an effective solution to social problems such as homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy. The term 'prison industrial complex' has been used to describe a similar issue in other countries' prisons of expanding populations.[1] History[edit] "Not, Parenti stresses, by making slippery usage of concepts like the 'prison–industrial complex.'
Critical Resistance. Reprieve. Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt' [VIDEO] Editor's note: The day after The Nation published this video, it sparked a heated debate during a meeting of the City Council's public safety committee. Since then, the New York Police Department's stop, question and frisk tactic gained national notoriety and became a major factor in the city's 2013 mayoral race.
Footage and audio from this video were incorporated into a PSA video by the artist Yasiin Bey, and, perhaps most significantly, and the video was mentioned in the August 2013 decision of the landmark federal case Floyd v. City of New York, which found stop and frisk to be unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city’s streets. Listen to the full audio of the stop: It looks like you don’t have Adobe Flash Player installed.
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