Solitary confinement is not only a violation of human rights. It is a tool of political warfare, a weapon in the arsenal of criminalization tactics used by the US government in its war on Black and Brown communities. By branding Black and Brown bodies as “criminals” the United States justifies its violence against them, perpetuating a racist system of neo-slavery and institutional White supremacy. Black and Brown bodies are warehoused in prisons for the profit of private prison companies. US free trade policies devastate the economies of Latin American countries, whose inhabitants are forced to cross a deadly desert to work for subhuman wages in the United States, only to be branded “criminals” and deported. At every turn Black and Brown bodies are subjected to violence and dehumanization, justified through a narrative of “law and order” and enforced through the tactics of criminalization, incarceration and solitary confinement.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:16:21 +0000
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