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Prison-industrial complex

Attribution of the U.S.'s high incarceration rate to profitCorrectional populations in the U.S., 1980–2013US timeline graphs of number of people incarcerated in jails and prisonsThe prison–industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the "military–industrial complex" of the 1950s, used by scholars and activists to describe the many relationships between institutions of imprisonment (e.g., prisons, jails, detention facilities, and psychiatric hospitals) and the various establishments that profit from them.

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