Based on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises, The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits by Bianca Tylek and Worth Rises is a meticulous exposé of who profits from incarceration. An essential primer, The Prison Industry maps the range of ways in which private corporations, often with their government partners, make money off incarceration. It further details the gross extraction of wealth from incarcerated people and their families, who have been brutalized by overpolicing, mass incarceration, and mass surveillance.

This Discussion Guide, authored by Brianna Gibson and Bianca Tylek, was created to help organizers, educators, students, people curious about abolition, individuals, book clubs, and study groups utilize The Prison Industry in community with others, as a tool for deeper reflection and self-interrogation, and to inspire concrete actions.

You can read the guide below or download a free copy.