Roundtable: Prison Industry

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This thematic panel will include students and faculty at Middle Georgia State University Department of Psychology and Criminal Justice. Each presenter will submit an abstract for their presentation. Abstract should be no more than a paragraph. Each participant will have 5 or more minutes to present and discuss one of the following topics:
To frame this discussion, we consider the following questions:
LOBBYISTS: What have they accomplished with prison industry? What role will prison play in the future and digital 21st century? Should society focus on punishment or treatment? Does the state have a responsibility to provide education and train inmates with employment skills? Should we allow inmate labor as a for-profit industry? Private prisons: Are they necessary? Debate; Prison Profiteering: The Morality; Indoctrination of Juveniles: Overrepresentation of minority groups in the JJS; Constitutionality of Prison Profiteering; Is prison the 21st Century Slavery? Can Racial Threat Theory explain mass incarceration? What are the Psychological Implications of prison life on inmates and family; Do Mass incarceration impact communities? Obama Administration V. Trump Administration: How did they respond to the issue of prison and what is their main policy?

Sub Unit

• Area XII. Roundtables

Individual Presentations

• Prison in Contemporary Society - Evaristus Obinyan, Middle Georgia State University; Paul Gladden, Middle Georgia State University; Alex Ekwuaju, Middle Georgia State University; Jeffrey Tarver, Middle Georgia State University; Hamin Shabazz, Lincoln College; Charles Ochie, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia; Patrick O. Ibe, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia; Sunday Anadi, Southern University at Baton Rouge

• tRUMP v. Obama on Prisons - Charles Ochie, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia

• Prison as a profit enterprise - Patrick O. Ibe, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia