Meanings
- Synonym of prison-industrial complex.
This "incarceration mania" has received, for some time now, much critical attention in the media. Excellent scholarship has been written addressing the surge in ircarceration in this country and what has come to be known as the penal-industrial complex.
2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of OrderSynonyms: prison-industrial complex
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of prison-industrial complex.
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penal-industrial complex. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/penal-industrial%20complex
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