What is the relationship between the “War on Terror” and the interests behind the growing U.S. prison industry? What have the events of September 11th meant for the already booming prison system? In addition to "correctional" agencies and corporations, who else is profiting from massive increases in incarceration and what other forms could that take?

Issues touched upon: the War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the criminalization of immigrants and the booming of border control bureaucracies and companies, the Feds' "bailout" of the private prison industry, the U.S.' Internment Camps from World War II.