| 单词 | prison-industrial complex |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprison-industrial complex prison-industrial complex n. (a) a correctional facility or unit in which inmates are put to work; (b) (originally and chiefly U.S.) the network of government and private agencies involved in the construction and operation of prison and detention facilities, regarded as a powerful vested interest which profits from high incarceration rates; cf. military-industrial complex n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > reformatory prison workhouse?c1475 house of correction1575 bridewell1583 work-jail1619 correction-housec1625 rasp house1651 bettering house1735 bettering mansion1740 penitentiary house1779 penitentiary1807 work farm1835 farm1857 pen1881 prison-industrial complex1965 1965 M. H. Cooper & R. D. King in P. Halmos Sociol. Stud. in Brit. Penal Services 150 We are to have a prison industrial complex, with an industrialist at the head, organised around specialised workshops with production runs and..competing in both the private and public sectors. 1973 High Point (N. Carolina) Enterprise 6 Dec. 7 c/3 What is cold, hard fact..is that enormous profits are made on prisoners who labor for the state for very little, by the correctional bureaucracy whose numbers grow as their efforts result in less and less achievement, and by the hordes of suppliers for the prison industrial complex. 1988 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 13 Mar. 4/1 Hutchinson would get a new 400-bed prison-industrial complex on the grounds of a former mobile home plant. 2008 A. Y. Davis Meaning of Freedom (2012) viii. 148 The prison-industrial complex has become so big and powerful that it works to perpetuate itself... The raw materials are immigrant youth and youth of color throughout the world. < as lemmas |
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