>So maybe I'm not "people" ...?
Google "prison labor" and you'll see what I mean.
>So: who benefits from the latest technological gizmos that get
>developed, procured, and retired in the prison world?
I don't know what gizmos you mean.
>I'll see your Parenti and raise you a Mike Davis (widely thought to
>have coined the term Prison Industrial Complex),
Yeah. I'm a huge Mike Davis fan but sometimes he can get carried away. He was talking about rural California, so prison industrial complex overreaches I think.
http://www.mendeley.com/research/hell-factories-field-cover-story/