Post-Reading Questions-Week Thirteen

The motivation for incarcerating people is to stop crime on the streets that people are committing. I feel the system is doing that but also incarcerating people and putting them in the joint because the system makes money off one person. So the more people entering the system the more the system is getting.

Racial caste System means who’s in high more priority and who is on the bottom of the totem pole. In the prison system the people of color are considered second class status compared to the whites. People of color are labeled criminals even though they haven’t committed a crime they are classified and labeled in. Most people of color such as blacks and Latinos come from communities that lack education, poverty, and don’t offer a lot of opportunities. The population in the prison system there are more colored people being locked up than whites because the lack of resources that the colored people have and police officers patrol in communities that have blacks or Latinos in and have the high crime rate.

The industrial part of PIC is that they make supply such as furniture and distribute it to the outside world when the inmates make them. The PIC is a private company or business that hire inside the prison system and they pay them to make the supplies. Prison-Industrial Complex means it’s a private prison that is a company or business that makes supply goods, which hire in the prison the inmate that committed a minor crime. They would hire the inmates and pay them less than hire anyone else that they have to pay minimum wage. I don’t agree to this because they are locked up for a reason and that they shouldn’t get paid or have so much freedom in the prisons. Even though they are behind bars and they are limited to things they still have so much priority in there that they shouldn’t.