Prison Industry

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The non-profit, non-partisan think tank Interrogating Justice calls the PIC “a symbiotic relationship between police departments, court systems, probation offices, transportation companies, food service providers, and many others; all of which ultimately benefit from maintaining incarceration.” 

Companies benefitting off the PIC include Aramark, 3M, Amazon, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Western Union, and Wells Fargo. Private prison operators include CoreCivic, Ferrovial, GEO Group, and Serco Group.

History of Convict Leasing - By the early 19th century, governments began to get involved in the business of running prisons. Private businesses began to provide contracting services for food, medical care, and transportation. However, there were times when government run prisons collaborated with private business in exchange for labor. This can be seen prominently in the convict lease system in the American South. This system involved private parties paying public prisons for forced labor. Prisoners were often rented out to plantation owners and corporations for mining coal, laying bricks, or cutting timber. The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company (TCI) was one of the largest users of prison laborers, mostly comprised of African Americans convicted of petty crimes. U.S. Steel was another American company who has since acknowledged using African-American convict labor. These corporations would be responsible for feeding, clothing, and housing the prisoners. This system would ultimately lose favor, with Alabama being the last state to outlaw the practice in 1928. The system drew criticism for a number of highly publicized abuses, including the case of Martin Tabert, a young white man from North Dakota who had been arrested in Florida for being on a train without a ticket. Tabert was fined $25, His parents sent the money, but it disappeared somewhere along the way and Martin was subsequently leased to the Putnam Lumber Company in Clara, Florida, south of Tallahassee. Martin would end up being whipped with a leather strap by the boss until he died. The story made national headlines and resulted in Florida Governor Cary A. Hardee ending convict leasing in 1923.

Unicor - As the governments of the world began to participate in the prison industry new institutions began to pop up, including the establishment of Federal Prison Industries in the U.S. in 1930. Federal Prison Industries, also known as Unicor, is a prison labor program whereby inmates produce goods and services for the public sector. Under US federal law, all physically able inmates who are not a security risk or have a health exemption are required to work, either for UNICOR or another prison job. In the United States, inmates earn between $0.23 to $1.15 per hour. Some critics equate this labor program to a form of modern day slavery. While the convict labor program may have ended the practice of loaning out prisoners to corporations, there are also concerns around the growth of the private prison industry. As previously mentioned, today the private prison industry operates facilities for immigrant detainees. These prisons are run by private corporations who enter into a contract with the government. This contract outlines how a corporation is getting paid, which can be determined by the size of the prison, or in most cases, it is paid based on the number of inmates that the prison houses. Critics point to the incentive to create financial profits and cut costs as a reason why private prisons should be abolished or greatly reduced. Some of the companies who profit off cheap prison labor include McDonalds, Wendy’s, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Sprint, Verizon, Victoria’s Secret, Fidelity Investments, Jc Penney, and American Airlines. The Prison-Industrial Complex of today includes the public and private prisons, the parole and probation services, the cash-bail system, the unjust laws and sentencing, the school-to-prison pipeline, and many other factors. So what lead to the creation of this corporate-state relationship which imprisons and destroys lives?

Drugs - A 2014 report by the National Research Council identified two main causes of the increase in the United States’ incarceration rate over the previous 40 years: longer prison sentences and increases in the likelihood of imprisonment. The NRC claims the longer prison sentences were the main driver of increasing incarceration rates since 1990. These longer sentences are part of so-called Three Strikes rules where a prisoner is given lengthy mandatory minimum sentences after three arrests. In the United States, these practices can be traced to the government’s War on Drugs, a campaign launched in the early 1970’s aimed at criminalizing and punishing drug trafficking and use.

American Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan introduced anti-drug legislation with harsher punishments. During this time incarceration of non-violent drug users became the norm.  Many critics of the PIC point to the Drug War as the main cause of the growth of the prison system. From the 1970’s on, Americans were subjected to jail and prison for non-violent drug offenses, such as using drugs or simply being in possession. This resulted in imprisoning and ruining of millions of peoples lives. The tough on crime and drugs mentality was embraced by then New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, of the infamous Rockefeller family. In January 1973, Rockefeller rolled out a political campaign focused on ending the use of drugs and pushing for mandatory prison sentences of 15 years to life for those caught with small amounts of Cannabis, cocaine or heroin.

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In a 2016 article for Harper’s Magazine journalist Dan Baum recounted a story told by John Ehrlichman, Richard Nixon’s Domestic Policy Advisor during his presidency. “You want to know what this was really all about?” asked Erhlichman in regards to the Drug War. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” According to the Prison Policy Initiative, because people of color often face disproportionately high rates of poverty they also suffer from the justice system’s unequal treatment of poor people. Black Americans, in particular, are disproportionately likely to be incarcerated and to receive the harshest sentences, including death sentences.