ABSTRACT
Mumia Abu-Jamal's statement stresses the contradictory links between the education system in the US and the prison-industrial complex. Schools should be "training grounds" to teach all students how to be law-abiding, productive citizens. Prison corporations are eager to build and operate people cages or to privatize already existing facilities, and thus—supposedly—save state and federal governments lots of money. Greenville prison, exemplifying "the architecture of fear," was constructed in 1994, during the height of the prison construction boom. A partial explanation for the rise in mass incarceration is that corporations began to discover the many ways they could make crime pay by locking up as many people as possible. In Indiana, the school voucher program, instituted by Republican governor and Vice President Mike Pence and a Republican legislature, offers parents money to send their children to private schools, including religious ones.
