LOCKDOWNS UP
LOCKDOWNS UP
Directed / Produced by Ashley Hunt
The Corrections Documentary Project
9 minutes / 2002
“It shows you how perverse the incentives are within this industry: crime is up is good for us, recessions are good for us, the worse things are the better business gets...”
— Judith Greene, Justice Strategies
What is the relationship between the early 2000’s War on Terror and the interests behind the growing U.S. prison industry? What did the events of September 11th mean for the already booming prison system? In addition to state prison agencies and prison corporations, who else is profiting from massive increases in incarceration, and what other forms could that take?
LOCKDOWNS UP is a 9-minute video essay based upon a phone call with analyst Judy Greene, discussing a share holder meeting in which the head of Cornell Corrections projects serious profit should the government hire companies like them to build internment camps for Arab Americans.
Issues touched upon: the War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the criminalization of immigrants and the booming of border control bureaucracies and companies, the Feds’ “bailout” of the private prison industry, the U.S.’ Internment Camps from World War II.
This short film is especially relevant in relation to the second Trump administration and the massive amounts of money it has earmarked for the building of new prisons for its war on immigrants.
Featuring the words of Judith Greene
Distributed by Third World Newsreel
Originally produced in response to Third World Newsreel’s call for works responding to what the US response to 9/11 may mean for communities of color
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