Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy

Linda Evans, Eve Goldberg

• Publisher: PM Press
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9781604862416
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

The prison business in the US is not based on locking up, punishing, or rehabilitating dangerous hoodlums. Follow the money and find how the prison-industrial complex fits into the New World Order of free trade and imprisoned people, the war on drugs, and capital flight.

Resource List

Anarchist Black Cross Federation
NJ ABC-BG
PO Box 8532
Patterson, NJ 07508-8532
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~abcf

California Prison Focus & H.I.P.
(HIV In Prison)
2940 16th St. #307
San Francisco, CA 94103
www.prisons.org

Coalition for Prisoner Rights
Box 1911
Santa Fe, NM 87504

Critical Resistance East
460 W. 128 St.
New York, NY 10027
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[email protected]
www.criticalresistance.org

The Fire Inside
c/o California Coalition for Women
Prisoners
1540 Market St. #490
San Francisco, CA 94102

Libertad
2607 W. Division
Chicago, IL 60622
Libertad carries news and information from the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War.

Out of Time
3542 18th St. Box 30
San Francisco, CA 94110
Newsletter of the Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War.

Prison Activist Resource Center
BOX 339
Berkeley, CA 94701
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[email protected]
www.prisonactivist.org

Prison Art Newsletter
PO Box 31574
San Francisco, CA 94131
[email protected]

Prison Legal News
2400 NW 80th St. #148
Seattle, WA 98117
www.prisonlegalnews.org

RAZE the WALLS
Box 720418
Orlando, FL 32872
Provides prisoner support and abolition work.

This Just In
103 Bartlett Ave.
Pittsfield, MA 01201

Transformation
c/o Women’s Project
2224 Main St.
Little Rock, AR 72206
A quarterly newsletter for social and economic justice by groups working with women prisoners since 1989.

Walking Steel/Can’t Jail the Spirit
Box 578172
Chicago, IL 60657
[email protected]
Walking Steel carries written materials including a collection of bios on some of the current political prisoners in the U.S.

EVE GOLDBERG is a writer, filmmaker, and prisoners’ rights activist.

LINDA EVANS is a former anti-imperialist political prisoner. She was incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, California for 16 years. Linda was released in 2001 via a pardon by president Bill Clinton, along with Susan Rosenberg, another political prisoner.

Linda and Eve currently live in Santa Rosa, California.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PRISON STATISTICS
• POEM: GOING INTO THE PRISON
• THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
• PRISONS ARE BIG BUSINESS
• LABOR AND THE FLIGHT OF CAPITAL
• THE WAR ON DRUGS
• PRISON LABOR
• WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER
• WHAT IS TO BE DONE
• REFERENCES
• RESOURCES
• AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES