This is the most important episode of this podcast. In this episode, we learn what the PIC exactly is and how it is connected to other terms like mass incarceration, the War on Drugs and The New Jim Crow. We learn why the US keeps people incarcerated to generate profit and who is involved in that.

Timestamps:

00:00 - 03:23: Introduction

03:23 - 09:10: The Prison Industrial Complex & The Normalisation of Punishment. Why Private Companies need Prisons to survive.

09:10 - 14:14: The Connections Between The Military Industrial Complex & The Prison Industrial Complex

14:14 - 28:28: Forced Labor (Slavery) in prison by private companies

28:28 - 37:16: Profit and Medical Experiments on People Who Are Incarcerated

37:16 - 45:00: Private Prison Corporations. The Brazoria Tape

45:00 - 49:21: The Global Prison Industrial Complex

References:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Lp5a41QZdetsw6rnF7_CfHJswcDtBgiCdTJwCjaay8/edit?usp=drivesdk