Shorter Pieces
Mariame Kaba, “What is the PIC? My Archive of Definitions and Concepts“
Critical Resistance, “What is the PIC? What is Abolition?”
Angela Davis, “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex,” 1998.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, “From Military Industrial Complex to Prison Industrial Complex,” 2012.
Micah Herskind, “Cop City and the Prison Industrial Complex in Atlanta,” 2022.
Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans, “The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy,” 1998.
Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA), “Making Connections: Anti-Violence Movement Resisting the Prison-Industrial Complex,” 2011.
Mike Davis, “Hell Factories in the Field: A Prison Industrial Complex,” 1995.
Hannah Bowman, “The Interlocking Prison Industrial Complex” Graphic, 2020.
Eric Schlosser, “The Prison-Industrial Complex,” 1998.
Listening and Viewing
Critical Resistance (editor), “Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex Video Project,” 2017.
Project NIA, “Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Abolition 101,” 2020.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, “Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex,” 2013.
Micah Herskind, “Mapping the Prison Industrial Complex,” 2022.
Books and Longer Pieces
Rose Brewer and Nancy Heitzeg, “The Racialization of Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice, Color-Blind Racism, and the Political Economy of the Prison Industrial Complex,” 2008.
Micah Herskind, “Mapping the Prison Industrial Complex: A Tool for Abolitionist Organizers,” 2022.