What is Prison–industrial complex?
The '''prison–industrial complex''' is a term for the relationship between the government and businesses and how prisons are involved. Some sources say the government makes sure that many people are locked up in [[prison]] to provide cheap workers for businesses. It is similar to the term [[military–industrial complex]]. It is an expression used to describe the overlapping interests of [[government]] and industry that use surveillance, policing and imprisonment as solutions to [[economic]], [[social]] and [[political]] problems. The [[United States]] has the largest prison population in the world. Many of those prisons are private prisons run by companies rather than the government. {{politics-stub}} [[Category:Prisons]] [[Category:Politics]]