Talk:Prison-industrial complex

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"The Prison Industrial Complex" is the name of a compact disc, by Angela Y. Davis, released in 1999.

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[edit] Proposed merger

User:Sea.wolf4/Sandbox/PIC Sandbox and User:Sea.wolf4/Sandbox1 are two articles about Prison-Industrial Complex, they should be merger in to this article. NWH5305 07:00, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This article now exists in Czech

can anyone add the link to it please?


[edit] Do not merge this article

"Prison Industry" links directly to "Prisons in the United States," and the concept of the prison-industrial complex, a central component of arguments against the American prison system, should not be merely a footnote of the other article.

[edit] Do not merge this article

Prison-industrial complex is a term of art often used by activists against the prison system -- it has a unique connotative meaning not sufficiently covered by "Prison Industry," especially considering that, as the previous poster mentioned, it links directly to "Prisons in the United States." 24.162.3.68 23:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Do not merge this article

The whole point in the term prison-industrial complex is to draw an analogy to the military-industrial complex. Indeed, the analogy is very strong, though this article does not drive it home. The military-industrial complex has its own article and there should be a parallel article on the prison-industrial complex. I have verified that the two articles presently reference one another, as they should. ThomHImself 03:09, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree, and am taking the liberty of removing the merge tag, as no arguments have been presented for the merge. Abeg92contribs 14:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Do not merge this article

Prison-industrial complex is a concept itself. Cant be merged with another article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ciup (talk • contribs) 19:33, 12 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Someone redo this article

this article is of very poor quality. everything after: " The prison-industrial complex refers to interest groups that represent organizations that do business in correctional facilities, such as prison guard unions, construction companies, and surveillance technology vendors...." needs to be redone. I wouldn't be suprised to find that our "prison-industrial complex" is in a sad state of affairs, but this article seems to being very narrowly represented by someone (or some people) who just want to state that our ""prison-industrial complex" is a bad thing. Helio462 15:00, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I fail to see how that's POV. It seems like a factual statement. Is it excluding any groups from the list of organizations? Is it naming to many that don't fall in that category? Please explain. I just saw this article being discussed here. —Slipgrid 18:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I can understand how you see that this is not a POV issue. The problem with this article really stems from the definition of "prison-industrial complex." "Prison-industrial complex" is not properly defined in this article at all. If you look at the article for "military-industrial complex", you will see that it is defined as "a close and symbiotic relationship among a nation's armed forces, its private industry, and associated political and commercial interests." Yet in this article prison-industrial complex is defined as "interest groups that represent organizations that do business in correctional facilities." I believe that the definition here should be broadened beyond the scope of interest groups and made to be more parallel to the definition of military-industrial complex, which is not the actual interest groups themselves, but is the existence of a functional relationship between the entity and private industry. Helio462 04:23, 22 September 2007 (UTC)