@PrisonPolicy @amnesty end/ In this regard, the facts illuminate precisely what the US techno-industrial order stands for - the world's largest 'crime control' complex, algorithmically-supercharging a symbiotic state and corporate matrix of accelerating social control, profitably targeting the poor.
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Excerpt from tweet thread here: Overall, this increased usage has translated to big business for the 11 EM companies that control roughly 99% of the EM industry. Vera notes this translated to more than $1.2B spent on EM in 2023 alone. As we have noted, however, this massive investment in digital incarceration has not replaced our reliance on more traditional “brick and mortar” incarceration in jails but rather serves as an expansion of overall state surveillance.
@UssamaMakdisi The US model for a rules-based order? An interlocking transnational carceral fantasy serving elite structures of power profitably, militantly and irremediably vested in a form of Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities. Moltmann's "universal prison camp".
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Cartoon of US spokesman at Dias next to US flag., saying, "For now, we will refer to the takeover by the Egyptian Army as extreme democracy."
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The USA model. “We will bring a full American version.” Sisi, who denies the existence of human rights violations in Egypt, announces on state television, Wednesday, that the largest prison complex in the country will be inaugurated soon. Committee for Justice Detention Watch Project Arbitrary arrests have explosively increased following the events of 30 June 2013. This led to overcrowding of detainees in places of detention and the use of non-commissioned places of detention as detention facilities, where detainees are placed outside the protection of the law and subjected to extended periods of torture, or even killed. CFJ