““We have a system of terrorizing punishment meted out directly to more than two million people in prison and to another five million or more under surveillance and supervision in parole, probation, and other correctional supervision, because unequal distribution of property and general economic disparity would have reached nearly unmanageable levels without these institutions of discipline. The racialized police violence we see today in the U.S., and which grew throughout the 1980s and 1990s, becomes most acute in times when wealth is being funneled upwards, leaving poorer groups in new conditions of desperation and vulnerability.””
