Mass Incarceration in California; It's about Profits, not Justice.

This 2005 study examines how mass incarceration in California during Gray Davis's term as governor was driven by profit motivated corporations and corrupt political relationships with the prison guard union. The corporations, along with the prison guard union, benefit strongly from the maintenance of stable and consistent supplies of people being trapped within the state's prisons. This political reality has created the engine for mass incarceration, militarized policing, and the criminalizing of African (Black), Indigenous (Red/Brown), and poor white people as policy. The study is also focused on demonstrating that the State of California partners with private corporations to create a situation where the public subsidizes corporate exploitation of incarcerated person's labor in ways that are not only immoral, but most likely illegal.