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. The term 'prison industrial complex' has been used to describe a similar issue in other countries' prisons of expanding populations.[1] History[edit] The signing of the Rockefeller drug laws in May 1973 by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller is considered to be the beginning of the Prison Industrial Complex. "The Prison Industrial Complex" is the title of a recorded 1997 speech by social activist Angela Davis, later released as an audio CD that served as the basis for her book of the same title. A few months later, Eric Schlosser wrote an article published in Atlantic Monthly in December 1998 stating that: Economics[edit] Prison abolition[edit]
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. 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. On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York City Police officers stopped a Harlem teenager named Alvin and two of the officers questioned and frisked him while the third remained in their unmarked car.
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