In Truthout.org, Dina Rasor has penned an incisive and frame-shifting analysis about the prison industrial complex. Yes, there are bad people who do bad things who should be locked up to protect society, but as Rasor points there is an increasing industry incentive to criminalize as much behavior as possible in order to fill jail beds.

This comes, in large part as Rasor details, due to the rapidly emerging for-profit prison industry.