penal-industrial complex

English

Noun

penal-industrial complex

  1. Synonym of prison-industrial complex.
    • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
      This "incarceration mania" has received, for some time now, much critical attention in the media. Excellent scholarship has been written addressing the surge in ircarceration in this country and what has come to be known as the penal-industrial complex.
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