Ep. 4 - Prison Industrial Complex

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