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Criminal Justice New Releases The Prison Industry How It Works and Who Profits
A meticulous exposé of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition
Based on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises—best known for campaigns that have revolutionized prison telecom and made prison and jail communication free in cities and states around the country—The Prison Industry maps the range of ways in which private corporations, often with their government partners, make money off incarceration. It further details the gross extraction of wealth from incarcerated people and their families, who have been brutalized by overpolicing, mass incarceration, and mass surveillance.
Chapters on labor, telecom, healthcare, community corrections, and more explore the origin story of privatization for each sector and how much money is in it for the corporations involved. Stretching far beyond private prisons to look at all the sectors that benefit from incarceration, the authors illuminate the methods used to extract resources from public coffers and communities, which corporations are most active and how they partner with governments, and the harms these profit-based approaches to justice cause people, families, and communities.
Ultimately, The Prison Industry makes a compelling case for dismantling the prison industry and prison abolition more broadly. It serves as a tool for the tearing down of our wholly oppressive carceral system—the ashes of which we can use to create a better world built on care, not cages.
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PUTIN-TRUMP ALASKA SUMMIT 15 Aug, 19:06 |TASS has compiled the main information known about the summit at this moment.
IN BRIEF: '10 out of 10': What is known about Three-hour Summit between Putin, Trump
- They spoke for nearly three hours in the presence of their foreign ministers and aides.
Then, Putin and Trump made statements to the media. They refrained from answering questions and then briefly conversed on their feet. Afterwards, Putin laid flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots buried in Anchorage and flew back to Russia. Putin's first visit to the US in ten years lasted just over five hours.
TASS has compiled the main information known about the summit at this moment.
Start of summit
The Russian leader's plane landed at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson at 10:54 a.m. local time (6:54 p.m. GMT). The welcoming ceremony on the airfield began at 11:10 a.m. local time (7:10 p.m. GMT).
Before taking the official photo on the airfield in Anchorage, Putin and Trump exchanged a few words. The leaders refrained from communicating with the press and did not answer reporters’ questions.
The summit began with a one-on-one conversation in the US president's Cadillac limousine. Thus, the leaders began communicating face-to-face en route to the main venue of the negotiations.
Three-on-three format
- The closed-door talks in the "three-on-three" format began at 11:26 a.m. (7:26 p.m. GMT).
- In addition to the heads of state, the Russian side was represented by Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, while the US side was represented by State Secretary Marco Rubio and Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff.
When the journalists entered the room where the leaders were meeting, they began pushing each other to get better seats, a TASS correspondent reported. When asked to leave the room, the journalists began shouting questions, somewhat surprising the presidents and members of the delegations.
The presidents talked for about three hours, counting from their first brief conversation on the red carpet. Then, Putin and Trump held a joint press conference, during which they summarized the results of the talks.
Spotlight on Ukraine
The situation around Ukraine became one of the central issues of the summit, the Russian president said. He expressed hope that the understanding he reached with Trump would pave the way for peace in Ukraine.
Putin said that he and Trump had "established very good business and trusting relations." "I have every reason to believe that, moving along this path, we can reach the end of the conflict in Ukraine sooner rather than later," he said. Putin noted that Russian-US relations had fallen "to their lowest point since the Cold War" in recent years, and that it was necessary to "rectify the situation, moving from confrontation to dialogue."
Immediately before the start of the summit, a TASS source reported that Putin and Trump would discuss global strategic security and that "in one form or another, the topic of sanctions and their destructiveness" would also be addressed.
"Huge progress"
Trump told reporters at the meeting that the leaders had really made tremendous progress.
"There were many, many points that we agreed on. I would say a couple of big ones that we haven't quite got there, but we've made some headway," the US president said.
He later told a Fox News reporter that he rated the meeting with Putin "a 10 out of 10."
Possible continuation
Restrained media reaction
The American media reacted cautiously to the summit, emphasizing the absence of announced agreements or details about the discussions.
The New York Times believes that Putin delayed the introduction of new sanctions, and Bloomberg noted that, after lengthy discussions, "neither leader provided clear details on their discussion or on where they found common ground." The news agency pointed out that this will intensify anxiety in European capitals and in Kiev.
Putin's latest meetings with US leaders
Putin and Trump last held a full-fledged summit in July 2018 in Helsinki, which lasted more than two hours.
They met briefly on December 1, 2018, on the sidelines of the G20 summit, and their conversation lasted about 15 minutes.
Their last meeting took place on June 28, 2019, at the G20 summit in Osaka. Talks lasted one hour and 20 minutes.
On August 16, 2021, after Trump's first presidential term ended, Putin met with Biden in Geneva. The conversation lasted three and a half hours, including a break.
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