Prison–industrial complex
Attribution of the U.S.'s high incarceration rate to profit
Prison–industrial complex
The prison–industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the "military–industrial complex" of the 1950s, used by scholars and activists to describe the many relationships between institutions of imprisonment (e.g., prisons, jails, detention facilities, and psychiatric hospitals) and the various establishments that profit from them. The term is most often used in the context of the contemporary United States, where the expansion of the U.S. inmate population has resulted in economic profit and political influence for private prisons and other companies that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. According to this concept, incarceration not only upholds the justice system, but also subsidizes construction companies, companies that operate prison food services and medical facilities, surveillance and corrections technology vendors, telecommunications, corporations that contract cheap prison labor, correctional officers unions, private probation companies, criminal lawyers...
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