“The a priori association of blackness with guilt and criminality comforts white America by enabling people to believe that black Americans are deserving of their condition and that the livelihoods of whites are in no way bound up with black immiseration.” NeoliberalismCarceral State Book:Carceral Capitalism Source: Carceral Capitalism
“In other words, their [police] survival and expansion becomes bound up with their capacity to use the police power and the court system to loot residents.” NeoliberalismPrison Industrial ComplexCarceral State Book:Carceral Capitalism Source: Carceral Capitalism
“As the U.S. deindustrialized and the welfare state was gutted (a process that started in the 1970s), the solution to the problem of what to do with the unemployed people who had migrated to cities to become industrial workers—as well as the mentally ill people housed in hospitals that were shutting down en masse—was racialized mass incarceration.” CapitalismMass IncarcerationCarceral State Book:Carceral Capitalism Source: Carceral Capitalism