“Under this police–prison hegemony, mass repression and human containment become ironically and perversely linked to the accompanying logic of profit, accumulation, expansion, and strategic annihilation that guide advanced global capital. As racially pathologized and historically disfranchised communities are effectively surplused by capital’s logic of exploitation and labor expropriation, they cease to be relevant as either exploited workers or consumer markets. Rather, these racially criminalized populations are incorporated into a strategic commodity relation that invokes the history of U.S. racial chattel slavery (see chapter 6). Political prisoner Linda Evans, with activist Eve Goldberg, has thus argued, ‘Like any industry, the prison economy needs raw materials. In this case the raw materials are prisoners.’” Dylan Rodríguez, Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime, p. 143. related excerpts: nica-nopal.tumblr/post/79505919300/tracing-the-contemporary-prison-regimes-points-of nica-nopal.tumblr/post/76989701848/a-radical-genealogy-of-the-prison-regime-must
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