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The name of my topic is "The Business- The Business of Prisons." Picture a multi-billion dollar industry with corporate ties ranging from Boeing, Macy's, Nintendo Starbuck, and Victoria'a Secret. Picture an industry [inaudible] with sizeable strings to pull in Washington. Picture an industry where CEOs receive 5.7 million in executive compensation. If you're envisioning an investment bank or Wall Street, think again. "Orange is the new black" is more on the right track. Private prisons are a cash cow. Private companies rake in billions of dollars in revenue each year due to United States inmate population. In fact, this tread is so widespread that it has its own term: the prison-industrial complex. Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization working to dismantle the prison-industrial complex, defines the complex quite eloquent: the prison-industrial complex is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use civilians, policy, and imprisonment as solutions to