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Justice Policy Institute Report: Moving Target: A Decade of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) released a new report this week examining the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC)--the relationship between government and private interests that use imprisonment, policing, and surveillance as a solution to social, political, and economic problems. Moving Target: A Decade of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex, examines the progress of reform 10 years after Critical Resistance first launched its efforts to dismantle the PIC. The report underscores: Despite crime rates at 30-year lows, the criminal justice system has under its control more people than ever. * More than seven million people live their lives under the control of the criminal justice system in the United States. * More than seven million people live their lives under the control of the criminal justice system in the United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 05, 2008 (boomark / email).