Prison-industrial complex
Writing for The Atlantic Monthly in December 1998, Eric Schlosser said that "The prison-industrial complex is not only a set of interest groups and institutions. It is also a state of mind. The lure of big money is corrupting the nation's criminal-justice system, replacing notions of public service with a drive for higher profits. The eagerness of elected officials to pass tough-on-crime legislation -- combined with their unwillingness to disclose the true costs of these laws -- has encouraged all sorts of financial improprieties."[1]
These views are shared widely by critics of the carceral state, retributive justice, military-industrial complex, War on Terrorism, and militarism and Homeland Security.
According to many it is closely associated with vendors of technologies for use in prisons, monitoring, surveillance, and tracking the identity and movement of persons - and ominously anticipating their intent. For instance the so-called "Supermax" prison.
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