A visual on the prison industrial complex, specifically regarding how the carceral system is crucial to sustaining the entire racial capitalist structure. State violence is not an aberration in the system — it is the system.
Recommended reading/watching
- Antipode Foundation, Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore – An Antipode Foundation film, 2020
- Mariame Kaba, Towards the Horizon of Abolition: A Conversation with Mariame Kaba, 2017
- Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism, 2018
Related (on this website)
- a companion essay on prisons/policing and gendered violence