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==Examples of the Prison Industrial Complex==
== Examples of the Prison Industrial Complex ==








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*In 2016, Canada’s crime rates hit a 45-year low. Yet, incarceration rates hit an all time high. <ref>http://www.intersectionalanalyst.com/intersectional-analyst/2017/7/20/everything-you-were-never-taught-about-canadas-prison-systems</ref>  
*The majority of people incarcerated in Canada are denied bail and incarcerated in advance of their trial. This means they are legally innocent.
* <ref>http://www.intersectionalanalyst.com/intersectional-analyst/2017/7/20/everything-you-were-never-taught-about-canadas-prison-systems</ref>
*Indigenous Peoples are incarcerated 10x more often than non-Indigenous citizens; an example of systemic racism  <ref>https://www.oci-bec.gc.ca/cnt/rpt/oth-aut/oth-aut20121022info-eng.aspx</ref>  
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The prison industrial complex describes the ways the government and the private sector benefit by using surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as “solutions” to economic, social and political problems; the intertwining of structures that enable profit to be generated from incarceration and, by proxy, continued oppression. - Critical Resistance & the work of Angela Davis, adapted by Michelle Xie [1]



Examples of the Prison Industrial Complex

  • In 2016, Canada’s crime rates hit a 45-year low. Yet, incarceration rates hit an all time high. [2]
  • The majority of people incarcerated in Canada are denied bail and incarcerated in advance of their trial. This means they are legally innocent.
  • [3]
  • Indigenous Peoples are incarcerated 10x more often than non-Indigenous citizens; an example of systemic racism [4]

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