The prison–industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the "military-industrial complex" of the 1950s, used by scholars and activists to describe...
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The prison–industrial complex is the rapid expansion of US inmates and prisons in favor of private prison companies and businesses that profit from the...
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Native American issues in the United States are topics arising in the late 20th century and early 21st century which affect Native Americans in the United...
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government resources. Native Americans and the prison–industrial complex Police brutality in the United States Police use of deadly force in the United States...
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the modern prison industrial complex. Davis argues that incarceration fails to reform those it imprisons, instead systematically profiting from the exploitation...
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need, and the victims are often left not being taken care of. Based on Angela Davis' "Are Prisons Obsolete?", the prison industrial complex and mass incarceration...
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Animal–industrial complex (AIC) is a concept used by activists and scholars to describe what they contend is the systematic and institutionalized exploitation...
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White savior (redirect from White Savior Industrial Complex)
combined the term with "industrial complex" (derived from military–industrial complex and similarly applied elsewhere) to coin "White Savior Industrial Complex"...
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13th (film) (redirect from The 13th (film))
2016 American documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay. It explores the prison–industrial complex, and the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration...
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with the contemporary dictates of globalized capital and its prison industrial complex, nor the equally conservative project of abandoning poor women...
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Indigenous peoples of California (redirect from Native Americans in California)
incarcerated in California. Some native people identify the modern prison-industrial complex as another reproduction of the "punishing institutions" that...
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2013). "The Charitable-Industrial Complex". New York Times. Retrieved 28 January 2023. Mayer, Jane (2016). Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires...
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Native students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School and was an outspoken advocate of art as a means for Native Americans to maintain cultural pride, while...
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Taycheedah Correctional Institution (category Prisons in Wisconsin)
In 1945 Wisconsin Industrial Home and Wisconsin Prison for Women were combined and given the name Wisconsin Home for Women. The prison received its current...
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Alcatraz Island (category Prison islands of the United States)
by the American Indian Movement and other urban Native Americans from other parts of the country, who were part of a wave of Native American activists...
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corporations and politicians referring to the rise of a prison–industrial complex. He stated, "This has been ongoing for decades, with prison privatization...
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Adolphus G. Belk Jr. (category American political scientists)
Prisons: The Politics of Punishment in the Old Dominion and Sussex County,” A New Generation of Native Sons: Men of Color and the Prison-Industrial Complex, The...
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Mariame Kaba (category American prison reformers)
Mariame Kaba is an American activist, grassroots organizer, and educator who advocates for the abolition of the prison industrial complex, including all police...
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Linda Evans (radical) (category Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government)
African-Americans from white oppression. Evans was sentenced in 1987 to 40 years in prison for using false identification to buy firearms and for harboring...
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Leonard Peltier (category Native American candidates for Vice President of the United States)
He highlights the frequency of racial profiling of Indigenous people like himself and how the prison–industrial complex (PIC) targets and thrives off of...
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United States (redirect from The US and A)
and expanded westward across North America, dispossessing Native Americans during the Indian Wars. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the end of the Mexican–American...
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incarcerated women in the US is linked to the complex history of the war on drugs and the US's prison–industrial complex, which lead to mass incarceration among...
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freedoms. Native Americans have suffered genocide, forced removals, and massacres, and they continue to face discrimination. European Americans, Hispanics...
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1891 New Orleans lynchings (category Attacks on prisons and jails in the United States)
07056 The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans, immigrants in New Orleans, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder...
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Eastern State Penitentiary (redirect from Terror Behind the Walls)
The Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Fairmount section of the city, and...
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Savannah. Many Native Americans were involved in the fight between Britain and Spain on the Gulf Coast and along the British side of the Mississippi River...
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History of Minnesota (redirect from History of the Native Americans in Minnesota)
policy. African Americans had difficulties getting these jobs, which mainly went to Whites and to a small number of Native Americans. The Civilian Conservation...
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Oklahoma State Reformatory (category Prisons in Oklahoma)
enlargement and improvement within several prison industrial and buildings. During World War I, the institution assisted the U.S. military by supplying the Aviation...
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Ricardo Flores Magón (category Industrial Workers of the World members)
they were convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in Yuma Territorial Prison, later being transferred to Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence. They...
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since as early as the 1500s, and prisons in the form of dungeons and various detention facilities had existed as early as the first sovereign states. In...
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