Episode 167: Prison Industrial Complex/War on Drugs/Gary Webb

The prison-industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the "military-industrial complex" of the 1950s, used by scholars and activists to describe the relationship between a government and the various businesses that benefit from institutions of incarceration (such as prisons, jails, detention facilities, and psychiatric hospitals). The term is most often used in the context of the contemporary United States, where the rapid expansion of the U.S. inmate population has resulted in political influence and economic profits for private prison companies and other businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. According to this concept, incarceration benefits not only the justice system, but also construction companies, surveillance and corrections technology vendors, companies that operate prison food services and medical facilities, corporations that contract cheap prison labor, correctional officers unions, private probation companies, lawyers, and the lobby groups that represent them. Email us: thefacthunter@mail.com Website: thefacthunter.com Show Notes The Reagan Administration’s Drug War (1982) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgMYDdwAfRY Ronald Reagan-Speech to the Nation on the Campaign Against Drug Abuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWS7udm0yg This Is Your Brain On Drugs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOnENVylxPI The Drug War and the Prison-Industrial Complex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIoMJd2Vdfk Gary Webb, Dark Alliance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFXUHgbLukY Gary Webb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb Everything Americans Need To Know About The Prison Industrial Complex https://www.ranker.com/list/prison-industrial-complex-facts/harrison-tenpas 30+ USA Prisons Statistics: Numbers Explained! https://legaljobs.io/blog/usa-prisons-statistics/ Prison–industrial complex https://tok.fandom.com/wiki/Prison–industrial_complex William Grigg http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com