The Prison Industrial Complex
Incarceration has become a multi-billion dollar industry that relies on more than 2 million citizens on any give day in the United States. African American males, who in the 1970s were only 9% of the prison population, after harsher sentencing largely fueled by the drug trade, are now 62% of the pr...
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Language: | English |
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North Carolina Sociological Association
2006-11-01
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Series: | Sociation Today |
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Online Access: | http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v42/prison.htm |