The Corrupt Corporate Incarceration Complex
Submitted on July 7, 2011
By William Fisher - Truthout
"Profits by no means created the machinery of mass incarceration, no more than defense contracts invented war, but the huge profits to be made by incarcerating an ever-growing segment of our population serves the system very well...Profits oil the machinery, keep it humming and speed its growth..."
- Judith Greene, policy analyst with Justice Strategies, a nonprofit sentencing-reform advocacy group in New York
