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Prison Industrial Complex Photos

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Prison life at the Stiles Unit, a Texas State Prison, on May 2, 1997 in Beaumont, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prison life at the Stiles Unit, a Texas State Prison, on May 2, 1997 in Beaumont, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Members of the Mexican Mafia prison gang shows pose for a photograph in the administrative segregation wing recreation yard of the historical Eastham...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Organised Crime, Prison, Gang

Members of the feared Mexican Mafia prison gang shows his tattoos in the administrative segregation wing of the historical Eastham Prison on June 9,...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoner visits with his girlfriend during visiting day in a Texas state prison, May 1, 1997. Everything in prison is controlled by a series of...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Women prisoners at the Mountainview Unit, a Texas state prison for women, work the fields of the prison farm in hoe squads on October 1, 1996 outside...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prison, Prisoner, Prison Cell

Women prisoners at the Mountainview Unit, a Texas state prison for women, work the fields of the prison farm in hoe squads on October 1, 1996 outside...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoner, Prison Cell, Prison

Women prisoners at the Mountainview Unit, a Texas state prison for women, work the fields of the prison farm in hoe squads on October 1, 1996 outside...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoners on a solitary wing at San Quentin, a California state prison, are always escorted, when traveling outside of their cell, by corrections...

Mass incarceration in America

Prisoners on a solitary wing at San Quentin, a California state prison, are always escorted, when traveling outside of their cell, by corrections...

Mass incarceration in America

Prison Cell, Prisoner, Prison

Scenes from daily life on June 1, 1997 at the Hughes Unit, a Texas State prison outside of Gatesville, Texas. "n

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Prison, Prison Cell, Texas

S: A converted gym is used to house hundreds of prisoners at the Dual Vocational Institute, a California state prison operating at 210 percent...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoner, Prison Cell

Prisoner stands in sheriff Gerald Hege's pink walled jail, inspection on April 18, 2000 in Davidson County, North Carolina.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Texas teenage convicts between the ages of 14 and 16 sentenced to prison as adults, first serve their time in the Clemens Unit, February 10, 1997...

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Prisoner, Prison

Texas teenage convicts between the ages of 14 and 16 sentenced to prison as adults, first serve their time in the Clemens Unit, February 10, 1997...

The rise of mass incarceration in AMerica

Scenes from the crowded county jail under the supervision of controversial Sheriff Hege on April 20, 2000 in Davidson County, North Carolina.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prison, North Carolina - US State, USA

Prisoners sit in the heat of the Arizona desert in army tents in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "tent city" jail on April 14, 1995 in Phoenix,...

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Prisoner, Prison Cell

Like at all Texas prisons, suspected gang members at the Coffield Unit are kept on separate maximum security wings of the prison on March 15, 1998 in...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoner with a black eye rests after being beaten for having a black boyfriend on May 1, 1997 at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont, Texas.. While...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Gay prisoners are held in a protective custody wing at the Coffield Unit on March 15, 1998 in Tennessee Colony, Texas. These administrative...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Like at all Texas prisons, suspected gang members at the Coffield Unit are kept on separate maximum security wings of the prison on March 15, 1998 in...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoners entering the Texas prison system arrive from county jails to be processed and classified at the Holiday Unit on September 1, 1999 in...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Texas, Order, USA

Like at all Texas prisons, suspected gang members at the Coffield Unit are kept on separate maximum security wings of the prison on March 15, 1998 in...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoners entering the Texas prison system arrive from county jails to be processed and classified at the Holiday Unit on September 1, 1999 in...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoner, Prison

Prisoner just released from the Texas state prison system is reunited with his family on May 1, 1999 in Conroe, Texas.

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Racism, 1990-1999

Prisoners entering the Texas prison system arrive from county jails to be processed and classified at the Holiday Unit on September 1, 1999 in...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

USA, Prison, Order

Two lovers share a prison cell on May 15, 1999 at a prison in Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoners are transferred within the Pelican Bay prison on May 1, 1997 outside of Crescent City, California. Pelican Bay is California's toughest...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Two prisoners share a cell on July 1, 2002 at the New Hampshire state penitentiary on July 1, 2002 in Concord, New Hampshire.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Women prisoners receive visitors and are reunited with their families on visiting day at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Mountainview Unit...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Family, Prison, Women

Women prisoners receive visitors and are reunited with their families on visiting day at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Mountainview Unit...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Families visited with their incarcerated loved ones at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Hughes Unit on May 15, 1998 in Gatesville, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoner, Prison Cell

During the cotton harvest, prisoners from the Ferguson Unit bring in the crop from the prison fields along the Trinity River bottom on October 15,...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Scenes from the Lakeview Shock Camp, an alternative prison run by New York State in which nonviolent offenders can significantly reduce their...

The Rise Of Mass Incarceration In America

After a decade of unparalleled expansion, the Texas prison system releases hundreds of prisoners every single workday from the Walls Unit, August...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

After a decade of unparalleled expansion, the Texas prison system releases hundreds of prisoners every single workday from the Walls Unit, August...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Corrections officers search every cell in Texas' Coffield Unit for contraband and weapons on March 15, 1998 in Tennessee Colony, Texas. Periodic...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Corrections officers search every cell in Texas' Coffield Unit for contraband and weapons on March 15, 1998 in Tennessee Colony, Texas. Periodic...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Christian prisoners pray in a day room at the Ferguson Unit, a Texas State Prison, on January 15, 1997 in Midway, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Muslim prisoners studies the koran in the lunch room at the Ferguson Unit, a Texas State Prison, on January 15, 1997 in Midway, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prison, Prisoner

Convicts at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road...

Alabama's chain gangs

Working, Alabama - US State, Prison

Convicts at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road...

Alabama's chain gangs

Prisoner, Alabama - US State, Prison

Family walks past a prison guard watching convicts at the Limestone Correctional facility who have been placed back onto the chain gang when they...

Alabama's chain gangs

Prison, Prisoner, Alabama - US State

Convicts at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road...

Alabama's chain gangs

Alabama - US State, Prison

Convicts at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road...

Alabama's chain gangs

Prison, Built Structure, Working

Convicts at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road...

Alabama's chain gangs

Prisoner, Working

Convicts at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road...

Alabama's chain gangs

Prison, Alabama - US State, Prisoner

Convicts at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road...

Alabama's chain gangs

Prison, Alabama - US State

Convicts at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road...

Alabama's chain gangs

Prison, Chain - Object, Gang

Narcotics police officers arres a man on January 1, 1994 in Bridgeport, Conneticut. During the height of America's crack epidemic, post industrial...

Narcotics police during America's crack epidemic

Crime, Drug Dealer, Prison

People get under arrest by narcotics police on January 1, 1994 in Bridgeport, Conneticut. During the height of America's crack epidemic, post...

Narcotics police during America's crack epidemic

Prisoners just about to be released after finishing their prison sentences sign parole papers on June 2, 2000 at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prisoners just about to be released after finishing their prison sentences sign parole papers on June 2, 2000 at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Two undocumented prisoners just about to be released after finishing their prison sentences sign are put back in handcuffs to wait the arrival of...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prison life at the Stiles Unit, a Texas State Prison, on May 2, 1997 in Beaumont, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

S: A prisoner helps to train hound dogs used to chase escaped prisoners at the Hughes Unit, a Texas State Prison, circa 1990's outside of Gatesville,...

The rise of mass incarceration in America

S: Prisoners labor in the fields at the Hughes Unit, a Texas State Prison, circa 1990's outside of Gatesville, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

S: Visiting day at the Hughes Unit, a Texas State Prison, circa 1990's outside of Gatesville, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Prison administrator sorts through piles of paperwork at the Coffield Unit, aTexas State prison, on May 10, 2000 outside of Tennessee Colony, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

Life on the administrative wing of the Coffield Unit, aTexas State prison, on May 10, 2000 outside of Tennessee Colony, Texas.

The rise of mass incarceration in America

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