Ruth Wilson Gilmore w/ Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar
The Dig
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Is Private Prisons the Gateway to Capitalism?
The prison industrial complex has atrophied in the way that it has, argues Ruthie Meacham. There's also a more narrow popular reading of the term which emphasizes private prisons and corporate greed for profits," she says. "Private prisons are a particular thing, a particular form of parasite capitalism" But they don't drive the system, the cause of the system, writes Meachum.
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