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Meaning of penal-industrial complex | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Synonym of prison-industrial complex.

Examples

“This "incarceration mania" has received, for some time now, much critical attention in the media. Excellent scholarship has been written addressing the surge in ircarceration in this country and what has come to be known as the penal-industrial complex.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Penal–Debe Penalisation penalism penality penalization Penalize