Prison Industrial Complex for Beginners by Peterson, James Braxton -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Introduction

Per-Capita Punishment No Joking Matter Harsh Reality, Stark Truth A Bow to Colleagues

Chapter 1: The Origin of Complexes

History Prison Models Dawn of the Penitentiary State-of-the-Art Prisons What is a Complex? The Uncontrollable Monster MIC Meets PIC The Specter of Prisons From School to Prison

Chapter 2: Race and the Persistence of Law-and-Order Ideology

Where to Begin? The Dirty Little Secret of the 13th Amendment Pre-PIC Policies A Civil Rights Movement for the Ages The Rise of Nixon and Law-and-Order Politics Nothing Works Race, Law and Order

Chapter 3: The Failed War(s) on Drugs

Race and a History of Drug Policy Propaganda and Policy Formation No Knocking Allowed Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reagan's War An End in Sight?

Chapter 4: Private Profits and Private Prisons

Neoliberalism and Labor A Tangled Web Human Capital Industries That Profit from Prisons Prisons are Private Too Broken Windows The Real Problem

Chapter 5: Youth, Immigration, and Solitary Confinement

Superpredators/Super Bias Anti-Family Immigration Policy Solitary Confinement, Solitary Death

Chapter 6: Recidivism and Real Reform

The End of the Rehab Myth Inside Education The Cost of No Reentry Parole and Probation Under Reagan Abolish All Prisons Revising Sentencing Certain Polices Must Go

Epilogue: From The New Jim Crow to Jimmy's Back to The Last Jimmy Appendix: Syllabus: Black Prison Narratives

Course Description Course Objectives Course Format Course Requirements Course Texts Course Films Class/Topic Schedule (subject to change)

Notes Further Reading About the Author BLACK KIRBY Gallery