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penal-industrial complex

penal-industrial complex noun: synonym of prison-industrial complex.

Noun

penal-industrial complex

  1. 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 Order
    Synonyms:
    prison-industrial complex

Synonyms of penal-industrial complex

  • prison-industrial complex

Questions about penal-industrial complex

What does penal-industrial complex mean?
Penal-industrial complex means synonym of prison-industrial complex.
What part of speech is penal-industrial complex?
Penal-industrial complex is a noun.

Words near penal-industrial complex in the dictionary

  1. penal officers
  2. penal populism
  3. penal rosaries
  4. penal rosary
  5. penal substitution
  6. penal-industrial complex
  7. Penaldo
  8. penalisation
  9. penalisations
  10. penalise
  11. penalised

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