For stateless people, imprisonment can paradoxically secure more rights than freedom.

Evidence

This question can be formulated in more general terms. Why do prisons tend to make people think that their own rights and liberties are more secure than they would be if prisons did not exist? What other reasons might there have been for the rapidity with which prisons began to colonize the California landscape? — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 24 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Exclusion from legal protection forces the stateless to become criminals; Imprisonment can be endured as continued productive struggle rather than defeat.; Prisons create the illusion that free people’s rights and liberties are secured by imprisonment. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 24 (+3 more)

Related

• Prisons create the illusion that free people’s rights and liberties are secured by imprisonment. (similarity 0.85)
• Imprisonment can be endured as continued productive struggle rather than defeat. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Human rights vanish for people who lack their own sovereign government #corroborates (0.80)
• Prisons create the illusion that free people’s rights and liberties are secured by imprisonment. #qualifies (0.75) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 24
• Imprisonment only became conceivable once individual rights were recognized #expands (0.72)
• The inability to treat stateless people as legal persons threatens all citizens’ legal equality #contradicts (0.72)