Globalisation and US prison growth
In Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work “Globalization and US prison growth: from military Keynesianism to post Keynesianism militarism” she explains the prison population and it’s connection to the state. The prison population is expanding because the use and trade of illegal substances. In 14 years the drug commitments to the federal and state has surged 975 percent and this has raised prison expansion. Changes in employment has also cause an expansion in the prison. When people are left without jobs how will they pay for their mortgage. They will turn to illegal entitlement which is a property crime. This has doubled in 1982. Wages were frozen and it made it hard for workers to buy things that they needed like a home. Racism is a major counter for prison expansion. 70 percent of those that were arrested were white and 70 percent of those that were put behind bars were black. The prison system punishes different people differently. Some communities and industrial sectors depends on prisons for income.
Surpluses is symptomatic of globalisation. Surpluses that may rang from finance, land and labor and state capacities. Labor had achieved protection and military workers was crushed and US hierarchies stayed in place. Youth in the streets, political alliances, and women and children without husbands and fathers were social crisis. The surplusing meant that society depends on the production. The recession has produced displacement and unemployment. The displacements became socialized to produce equilibrium from profound imbalances.
