Equipment
More than 1,300 correctional corporations crowd the prison industry’s equipment and supplies sector, with law enforcement and correctional agencies spending $1.2 billion annually on equipment from batons and tasers to security barriers and chemical weapons. These corporations manufacture and distribute tools designed to dehumanize, abuse, and inflict trauma on people behind bars. Learn how these corporations have enabled correctional staff to run facilities by desperation, brutal force, and the threat of mounting punishment, and from the people exposing them.
Assignment
Read Textbook Chapter 5: Equipment (pgs. 32 - 38)
Answer Discussion Guide questions in Chapter 5: Equipment (pg. 5)
Watch the Punishment + Profit webinar on Equipment
Watch and share this week’s 5 Quick Facts video on social media
the brian lehrer show
punishment + Profit
A webinar series in collaboration with The Greene Space at New York Public Radio. Watch the replay below!
Speakers
Andrea James
Executive Director,
National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
George Joseph
Investigative Reporter,
Race & Justice Unit, WNYC
Nick Berardini
Film Director,
Killing Them Safely
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