Tag: Prison

  • The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation

    The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation

    written by a former music executive who says he witnessed a secret meeting in 1991 where the prison industrial complex encouraged the music industry to promote rap artists who glorify crime with the goal of encouraging listeners to get locked up in prison, so the private prisons could make more money

  • Gaza, The World’s Largest Open-Air Prison

    Gaza, The World’s Largest Open-Air Prison

    A look at life under occupation. Gaza has the look of a Third World country, with pockets of wealth surrounded by hideous poverty. It is not, however, undeveloped. Rather it is “de-developed,” and very systematically so, to borrow the term from Sara Roy, the leading academic specialist on Gaza. Even a single night in jail…