prison industry
Captive labor sector
Prison industry refers to the economic activities and businesses connected to incarceration.
This includes companies that build and operate prisons, provide services to correctional facilities, or use prison labor for manufacturing.
The term often carries critical connotations, suggesting that financial incentives drive incarceration rates: Critics argue the prison industry lobbies for harsher sentencing.
Also called the prison-industrial complex.
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- correctionsAdjustments to fix errors
- inmatesIncarcerated individuals
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- exploitationSelfish use of others
contracts · manufacturing · cheap · warehousing · profit · lobbying · sentences · overcrowding · recidivism · commissary · collect calls · phone calls · bail bonds · bonds · three strikes · uniforms · license plates · chain gang
- prison laborconvict labor, penal labor, hard labor, convict leasing, chain gang
prison industryunionized labor
Workforce with collective representation
at-will employment · collective bargaining · freelance work · worker cooperatives · gig economy
prison industryrehabilitation programs
Structured return-to-function efforts
restorative justice · decarceration · abolition movement · social services · job training programs
prison, industry, prisons, prisoner, prisoners, imprisoned, imprison, imprisons, imprisoning