t r u t h o u t | The Racialization of Crime and Punishment

Dr. Brewer and I argue that that the prison industrial complex is the latest in an historically uninterrupted series of legal and political machinations designed to enforce white supremacy with its economic and social benefits both in and with the law - "all domination is, in the last instance, maintained through social control strategies" (Bonilla-Silva 2001:103).