Life in prison for stealing food

James Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Thu Jun 3 10:49:31 PDT 1999


As I recall the Marxist criminologist was predicting these kinds of developments within the criminal justice system well over twenty years ago. His reasoning was that under late capitalism there will be an ever growing surplus population as fewer and fewer workers are required. Therefore, mechanisms for repressing this growing surplus population would be required, preferrably carried out in ways profitable to capital. Hence, Quinney predicted that there would be a rapid expansion of the prison-indsutrial complex.

Jim F.

On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:07:40 -0700 Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes:
>The prison-industrial complex is on to a good thing. By siphoning
>money from
>education and other social programs, they can create conditions that
>lead to
>more crime, requiring stricter laws, justifying more prisons,
>siphoning off
>still more money.
>
>I suspect Christian Parenti's new book will cover some of this.
>--
>
>Michael Perelman
>Economics Department
>California State University
>michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
>Chico, CA 95929
>530-898-5321
>fax 530-898-5901
>
>

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