Drugs, Race & the Gulag Industry
Against The Current vol. 153
Kilgore, James
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3321
Date Written: 2011-07-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13798
Across the country corrections department officials and captains of the incarceration industry are in crisis. Though the nation’s over bloated prison system is far from breaking, the halcyon days of proliferating maximum security units and juvenile detention centers appear nearly at an end. Prisons are bursting at the seams and states, reaping the backlash of years of neoliberal tax cuts, have no money to “fix” the problem with another round of construction.
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