Prison industrial complex for beginners

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Label

Prison industrial complex for beginners

Statement of responsibility

by James Braxton Peterson ; illustrated by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson

Creator

• Peterson, James Braxton, 1971-

Contributor

• Dyson, Michael Eric
• Robinson, Stacey, 1972-
• Jennings, John, 1970-

Author

• Peterson, James Braxton, 1971-

Illustrator

• Jennings, John, 1970-
• Robinson, Stacey, 1972-

Subject

• Criminal justice, Administration of
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
• Criminals -- Rehabilitation
• Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
• Graphic novels
• Prisoners
• Prisoners -- United States
• Prisons
• Prisons -- United States
• Race relations
• United States
• United States -- Race relations
• African American prisoners
• African American prisoners -- United States

Genre

• Graphic novels

Language

eng

Summary

"Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners is a graphic narrative project that attempts to distill the fundamental components of what scholars, activists, and artists have identified as the Mass Incarceration movement in the United States. Since the early 1990s, activist critics of the US prison system have marked its emergence as a 'complex' in a manner comparable to how President Eisenhower described the Military Industrial Complex. Like its institutional 'cousin,' the Prison Industrial Complex features a critical combination of political ideology, far-reaching federal policy, and the neo-liberal directive to privatize institutions traditionally within the purview of the government. The result is that corporations have capital incentives to capture and contain human bodies. The Prison Industrial Complex relies on the 'law and order' ideology fomented by President Nixon and developed at least partially in response to the unrest generated through the Civil Rights Movement. It is (and has been) enhanced and emboldened via the US 'war on drugs,' a slate of policies that by any account have failed to do anything except normalize the warehousing of nonviolent substance abusers in jails and prisons that serve more as criminal training centers then as redemptive spaces for citizens who might re-enter society successfully."--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Writers and Readers documentary comic book

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

365/.973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

A For beginners documentary comic book

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