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prison industrial complex

or pris·on-in·dus·tri·al com·plex

[ priz-uhn in-duhs-tree-uhl kom-pleks ]

noun

  1. the network of government agencies and private industry that foster, benefit from, and contribute to mass incarceration, the imprisonment of large numbers of people:

    The cheapness of prison labor is just one way that the prison industrial complex is used for profit.



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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of prison industrial complex1

First recorded in 1960–65
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Example Sentences

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And she described herself as an “abolitionist” — someone who favors the “abolition of police and the prison industrial complex.”

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Jurado identified herself as an abolitionist — someone who supports the “abolition of police and the “prison industrial complex” — in a questionnaire she submitted to the Democratic Socialists of America-Los Angeles.

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“We need the same investment that go into law enforcement and the prison industrial complex. We don’t have real investment into this work.”

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He’s also said he believes in “shrinking the prison industrial complex.”

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String all of this together and we have a cash cow riding an ouroboros of systemic failures, circling between the prison industrial complex and the easily exploitable through various flavors of apprehension related to the police.

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