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Herland Report: The Prison-Industrial Complex: You cannot have a discussion on the prison-industrial complex without discussing private prisons. As of 2018, private prisons housed 8.41 percent of incarcerated persons in the United States. While private prisons date back to the colonial days, the modern privatized prisons as we think of them only date back to the 1980s. This was initially …

  Herland Report: TV host, Hanne Nabintu Herland speaks with Woodley Auguste about the US drug industry, the US prison industry injustice and the need for prison reform. Watch it here. “We have a problem because many young people are incarcerated, charged with sentences that are way beyond the parameters of the law,” says the founder of a U.S. based public …