Robert Stark Interviews Charles Lincoln on the Prison-Industrial Complex

Charles Lincoln, Prison, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison Rape, Slavery, US Prison System

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Robert Stark talks to commentator Charles Lincoln on slavery and the prison-industrial complex. Topics include:

  • How imprisonment replaced slavery
  • The 13th Amendment and the exception it made for imprisonment
  • Prohibition and laws criminalizing what one does with their body
  • American folk heroes that would be criminalized today and how the essence of America was “lawless freedom”
  • The Prison Economy
  • The creation of the Department of Justice and the Federal Prison System after the Civil War
  • US Prison conditions and how they are worse than slavery
  • Charles Lincoln’s Prison Experience