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Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy

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Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing this excellent collection on the growing prison industrial complex of the United States, which is also being exported worldwide. There are 2.3 million people in cages here in the "land of the free." Many people are there due to a war on non-corporate drugs, involving non-violent offenders.
Private financial institutions like Lehman Brothers are floating the bonds to build more prisons, Halliburton is making money building detention centers, and California has budgeted new prison construction through the year 2040. Meanwhile, the U.S. has seen 288 colleges close since 1990, as higher education becomes cost prohibitive for much of the population. More people see their career options as being in either the military or the police or maybe the CIA/DHS/ICE/NSA/FBI/DIA . . . an authoritarian corporate dystopia is developing before our eyes.
Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
We need more books like "Warfare in the American Homeland" to wake up a sleepy populace which has been hypnotized by right-wing radio, perpetual "big games", and tv dramas like "Law and Order" that help to normalize a police state.

There's big money in the building of prisons, and in exploiting their labor once they're in prison. Corporatism needs to end.
The Corporation
The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime