Here is a graphic narrative project that attempts to distill the fundamental components of what scholars, activists, and artists have identified as the Mass Incarceration movement. Since the early 1990s, activist critics of the US prison system have marked its emergence as a "complex" in a manner comparable to Eisenhower describing the Military Industrial Complex. Like its "cousin," the Prison Industrial Complex features a critical combination of political ideology, far-reaching federal policy, and the neo-liberal directive to privatize institutions traditionally within the purview of government. It relies on the "law and order" ideology developed at least partially in response to the unrest of the Civil Rights Movement. It has been emboldened via the "war on drugs". This is a primer for how these issues emerged and how our awareness of the systems of mass incarceration may be the first step in reforming an institution responsible for some of our most egregious civil rights violations.