Mass incarceration is a continuation of the deportation and expulsion impulse: after 1960s urban unrest, decision-makers chose mass incarceration over military occupation, with bipartisan consensus on crime and racialized danger; incarcerated people are expelled from society and political power (no voting rights, limited legal recourse within prisons)—a more domesticated form of expulsion.
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“effectively deporting them from society and putting them in institutions where at least they were under, you know, direct surveillance and repressive control...expelled from...communities...effectively expelled from political society”
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