On Oct 31, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> "Another writer of the era who covered the expanding prison population and attacked “the prison-industrial complex” was Christian Parenti, who later disavowed the term before the publication of his book, Lockdown America (2000). “How, then, should the left critique the prison buildup?” asked The Nation in 1999. “Not, Parenti stresses, by making slippery usage of concepts like the ‘prison–industrial complex.’ Simply put, the scale of spending on prisons, though growing rapidly, will never match the military budget; nor will prisons produce anywhere near the same ‘technological and industrial spin-off.’"
Also, as Christian asked earlier today: "What does 'prison abolition' actually mean? I still don't know and can't get a clear answer and thus never subscribed."
Doug