Sentences with phrase «prison industrial complex»

This thorough, clear, and riveting exposé offers a powerful examination of the American prison industrial complex.

New York, USA About Blog Prison Culture is an attempt to document how the current prison industrial complex operates and to underscore the ways that it structures American society.

James Braxton Peterson is a media contributor, the host of The Remix podcast on WHYY, and the author of several books, including Prison Industrial Complex for Beginners.

Artist Devin Kenny will perform If I don't laugh / Tarda..., a powerful sonic performance incorporating music and spoken word and addressing the role of social media in the widened access to, as described by Kenny, images of «Black suffering that directly results from the machinations of white supremacy the US prison industrial complex and police state, and the aftermath of colonialism and chattel slavery».

In a recent New York Times Op - Ed, Nicholas Kristof challenged the American public to reconsider our policy strategies for addressing economic inequality and crime by investing in early education and parenting programs instead of the burgeoning prison industrial complex.

Yet, while the title of the hit Netflix show alludes to trendy character Piper Chapman's adjustment from wearing little black dresses to prison jumpsuits, Bennett's use of the title instead refers to the racism embedded in the American prison industrial complex.

«I was always disturbed, fascinated, and furious [about]... the prison industrial complex,» she said at a press event.

The move comes after comedian, activist and perennial candidate for public office Randy Credico launched a group with the help of Effective NY's Bill Samuels called «End the Prison Industrial Complex Now,» or «EPIC.»

Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, who has become a spokesman for redistricting reform thanks to his experience of being drawn out of his own district after the last Census, also issued a statement in support of Schneiderman, calling the lawsuit «a transparent attempt to breathe life into the prison industrial complex.»

I am thankful for efforts to raise the age so our young people can have a second chance and not be a part of what has been deemed a prison industrial complex,» said Reverend Shaun Jones, Pastor, Star Bethlehem Baptist Church.

The film isn't conversational and informative like, say, Ava DuVernay's 13th, a damning indictment of the prison industrial complex, and doesn't seek to lionize the black resistance in the way that Birth attempted.

In a peculiar casting choice, Lee has the actor playing a community priest spouting facts to his congregation about per - capita income disparity, the prison industrial complex («mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow,» he spits into a microphone) and a brief overview of black history and oppression.

We read Richard Wright's Native Son to frame conversations around the prison industrial complex.

«To me this means first acknowledging the work that community educators, mostly in communities of color, are doing to supplement the information our children receive about themselves, their histories, and the worlds in which we exist through schools and classrooms,» says Torres Covarrubias, citing as an example the work of her friend Patrisse Cullors - Brignac at Dignity and Power Now, an organization that helps people affected by the Prison Industrial Complex.

Much of his current work focuses on the Prison Industrial Complex and the many issues accompanying incarceration in its relationship to slavery.

Each of these tattoos corresponds with his exhibition that will explore themes of injustices within our legal system and underlying corruption in the prison industrial complex.

This is absolutely true in my family and of my particular generation in Braddock, Pennsylvania, where the men in our households if not killed in war or the steel mills by the time the War on Drugs raged through our community our men were killed by police or sent into the prison industrial complex.

His artistic practice is heavily community - based, dealing with the deep and complex issues of the prison industrial complex, its role within society, and its impact on his hometown's community.

Barrow is a co-founder of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization to end the prison industrial complex, and currently sits on the Community Advisory Board.

She's looking at the prison industrial complex of the criminal justice system.

Focused on their bottom line and advantaged by an obscure and often monopolistic environment, the private, for - profit corporations that operate in the prison industrial complex raise particular concerns for the incarcerated population, vulnerable to corporate abuse.

At the Corrections Accountability Project, our hope is that advocates, litigators, journalists, investors, and the public will use the report to further understand the expansive nature of the prison industrial complex and familiarize themselves with its players.

Authoritarian capitalism and the prison industrial complex is a two - tiered tyrannical system designed to enslave through mass incarceration.