Soo Lee
A002
Week 8
In Mike Ngo’s essay Day
in the Life, Ngo writes about his story as a Vietnamese refugee and a
prisoner of the U.S. It is another story that portrays the diverse and unique
struggles of Asian American refugee. As Ngo goes about his days in the prison
industrial complex, he observes the inhumane treatment against inmates as well
as slave-like routines of prisoners’ lives. Then he finds himself questioning
whether it was a better decision to come to the U.S. to avoid Ngo’s dad’s
imprisonment in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon than his own present reality
of imprisonment. While there are exponential increases in the number of people
who are being incarcerated, the economic profit through the system of prison
continues to benefit the rich.
Question:
How can the current system of prison industrial complex be
explained as the reflection of colonization?
More specifically, looking at the examples of wars in
Vietnam and Iraq, how does our prison system reflect on to those historical
mass murders?
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