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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jack up in magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. You likely know that the United States

incarcerates a world-historic number of people, but what role does mass incarceration play

in American political economy? Why did the prison industrial complex emerge when it did?

Why did it, like border militarization, rise out of the order-shaking crises of the 1970s

alongside neoliberal globalization? What to make of what my guest today, Ruth Wilson Gilmore,

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