The leftist aka progressives really get off on catch phrases, and buzz words. Prison industrial complex? Military industrial complex? How about the educational industrial complex? How about the transportation industrial complex? Anytime you have government doing things. You will have a industry built around it.
If you want to avoid increasing the prison industrial complex. Simply stop breaking the law!
I like auto union industrial complex
If those here with the China Derangement Syndrome were successful, General Motors would cease to be in spite of all the money stolen to prop it up.