I wanted to highlight a new resource, an infographic on the interlocking systems of the prison-industrial complex besides simply jails and prisons. This helps express how policing and prison abolition are tied together too:
Most of the information in this infographic comes from Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law’s excellent book, Prison By Any Other Name.
Here’s a text version of the graphic, with some additional sources linked:
- Prisons and Jails
- Economic interests: Prison Labor, Prison Guards’ Unions, Moving Capital to Rural Areas, Moving “Surplus Labor”
- Ideological basis: Retribution and Harsh Sentencing, Racial Control and Disenfranchisement
- Community Confinement and Control
- Probation and parole
- Home confinement and electronic monitoring
- Civil commitment and sex offense registries
- Economic interests: “saving taxpayer money”
- Ideological basis: “Law and Order” politics of fear
- Policing
- Police Violence
- Immigration Enforcement
- Community Surveillance
- Economic interests: Police unions, gentrification
- Ideological basis: Anti-Blackness
- “Treatment Industrial Complex”
- Forced drug treatment
- Forced psychiatric treatment
- Economic interests: lack of accessible healthcare, nonprofit industrial complex
- Ideological basis: Disregard for Autonomy
- Criminalization of Survival
- Survived and Punished
- Criminalization of Homelessness
- “Anti-trafficking”/Anti-sex-work
- Ideological basis: Misogyny/Misogynoir/Transmisogyny
- Criminalization of Parenting and Childhood
- Child Welfare System
- Criminalization of pregnancy loss and drug use in pregnancy
- School-to-Prison pipeline
- Ideological basis: Zero Tolerance Policies, Mandatory Reporting