Punishment’s meaning is fashioned through institutional symbiotic relationships
Evidence
Thus, the prison industrial complex is much more than the sum of all the jails and prisons in this country. It is a set of symbiotic relationships among correctional communities, transnational corporations, media conglomerates, guards’ unions, and legislative and court agendas. If it is true that the contemporary meaning of punishment is fashioned through these relationships, then the most effective abolitionist strategies will contest these relationships and propose alternatives that pull them apart. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 283
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the prison industrial complex as symbiotic relationships, not just buildings.
- XREF: connects to: Abolitionist analysis exposes the prison-industrial-AI complex as one system — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2601; Subtler punishment masked sovereign power rather than making it more humane; Institutional discipline correlates inversely with corporal violence. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2001 (+6 more)
Related
- Military and prison industrial complexes are symbiotic, sharing technologies (similarity 0.88)
- Punishment is so corporatized that mainstream companies now stake themselves in its perpetuation (similarity 0.85)
- The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.82)
- Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.80)
- Punishment follows politics, corporate profit, and media, not crime itself (similarity 0.80)
- Systems of punishment correlate strictly with systems of production (similarity 0.79)
- The penitentiary made incarceration itself the punishment for the first time. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Subtler punishment masked sovereign power rather than making it more humane
#expands(0.55) - Punishment is so corporatized that mainstream companies now stake themselves in its perpetuation
#expands(0.50) - Institutional discipline correlates inversely with corporal violence.
#expands(0.45) — , The Rod and the Child, 2001