Incarceration functions as warehousing of poor and unassimilated populations

Evidence

Clearly, this executive order on racial profiling makes explicit in America’s global designs what it now extends locally only through sublimation and implication. Doing unto others as you would continue to do unto yourself. The executive order will have no diminishing effect on the racially driven rates of incarceration in America where people of color, totaling a third of the general population, make up more than three-quarters of the spiraling prison population. Racially driven incarceration, in fact, is a cornerstone of the logic of born again segregative racism, of warehousing the poor and managing the unassimilated heterogeny. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 466

Categorization

• XREF: Aligns with Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow analysis of the mass incarceration system as a racial control mechanism. — connects to: A profitable poverty industry profits from the poor via pay-day and pawn services — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 72; Vagrancy laws effectively criminalized male unemployment and homelessness — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3285