Simply put, any strategy that sees itself as challenging the prison-industrial complex must meet the perverse and powerful fear industry — a convergence of economic, political, and psychosocial interests — and conquer it. Needless to say, that will be a formidable task. One meets a great offensive by skillfully mounting a greater counteroffensive, one that challenges, undermines, and dismantles the enemy. Powerful interests support the fear industry and, therefore, powerful social forces, from the grass roots up, need to be energized, activated, and mobilized to undo the considerable psychosocial damage done to the community mind through this continuous reinjection of culturally corrosive poison.
