Ruth Wilson Gilmore is professor of earth and environmental sciences and American studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She is the author of Abolition Geography, Golden Gulag, and Opposition in Globalizing California.

08.02.2022

• Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• Alberto Toscano
• Brenna Bhandar

The Prison-Industrial Complex Goes Beyond Cops and Jails. It’s All Around Us.

Police and mass incarceration are only the most visible and obvious manifestations of the prison-industrial complex. Ruth Wilson Gilmore argues that the prison-industrial complex is a holistic social organizing principle that pervades life under capitalism.