{"product_id":"9781620978399-prison-industry","title":"The Prison Industry","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow It Works and Who Profits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA meticulous exposé of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises—best known for campaigns that have revolutionized prison telecom and made prison and jail communication free in cities and states around the country—\u003ci\u003eThe Prison Industry \u003c\/i\u003emaps the range of ways in which private corporations, often with their government partners, make money off incarceration. It further details the gross extraction of wealth from incarcerated people and their families, who have been brutalized by overpolicing, mass incarceration, and mass surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapters on labor, telecom, healthcare, community corrections, and more explore the origin story of privatization for each sector and how much money is in it for the corporations involved. Stretching far beyond private prisons to look at all the sectors that benefit from incarceration, the authors illuminate the methods used to extract resources from public coffers and communities, which corporations are most active and how they partner with governments, and the harms these profit-based approaches to justice cause people, families, and communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately, \u003ci\u003eThe Prison Industry\u003c\/i\u003e makes a compelling case for dismantling the prison industry and prison abolition more broadly. It serves as a tool for the tearing down of our wholly oppressive carceral system—the ashes of which we can use to create a better world built on care, not cages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55471943254390,"sku":"9781620978399","price":15.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40111566_889f540c-f8ca-415a-93b3-7b30c7c1e4d8.jpg?v=1772075602","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781620978399-prison-industry","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}