The PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (the PIC) is the interaction of all the interests who help expand the prison system, some intentionally, some coincidentally, but all for reasons other than our safety and justice. Most of them influence prison growth for reasons of their own profit: some profit in terms of cash-$$, others in terms of political power, control of resources and property, or good TV ratings. Some profit from the business of imprisonment, others from having people out of their way, "criminalized" and locked up. It's a system where profit is more important than people; where people are split along the lines of race, gender & culture so that their labor, resources & power can be exploited and monopolized, and prisons make invisible the damage done along the way. Is it a conspiracy? It doesn't have to be -- as this chart shows, each group's own interests are set up to GROW...