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Zine: Sin Barras vol. 1
Sin Barras — 'without (prison) bars' in spanish — is a community-based group out of Santa Cruz that works to build coalitions to eradicate the prison industrial-complex.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. And the practice of disappearing vast numbers of people has literally become big business. Inmates across the US often work for pennies and live in dehumanizing environments, particularly in super-maximum prisons and immigration detention centers.
* The prison industrial complex maintains state power, reinforces social hierarchies, and concentrates wealth.
What is the prison industrial complex?
The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a term used to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems. Through its reach and impact, the PIC helps and maintains the authority of people who get their power through racial, economic and other privileges. There are many ways this power is collected and maintained through the PIC, including creating mass media images that keep alive stereotypes of people of color, poor people, queer people, immigrants, youth, and other oppressed communities as criminal, delinquent, or deviant. This power is also maintained by earning huge profits for private companies that deal with prisons and police forces; helping earn political gains for “tough on crime” politicians; increasing the influence of prison guard and police unions; and eliminating social and political dissent by oppressed communities that make demands for self-determination and reorganization of power in the US. (definition from Critical Resistance)Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. And the practice of disappearing vast numbers of people has literally become big business. Inmates across the US often work for pennies and live in dehumanizing environments, particularly in super-maximum prisons and immigration detention centers.
* The prison industrial complex maintains state power, reinforces social hierarchies, and concentrates wealth.
For more information:
http://sinbarras.wordpress.com/
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