US military prisons abroad and domestic prisons now function alike as zones without law

Evidence

Both the military prison and the domestic prison industrial complex now share the ā€˜organized oblivion’ of the concentration camp first identified by Arendt of totalitarian regimes. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 145

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to Agamben’s state of exception and Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s carceral geography, both cited here and relevant to any work on prison abolition or sovereignty.