The Politics of Prisons

i think we tend to operate with a kind of ina fifth and nineteenth century sort of antinomy be were, you know, the world of economics is a world of some kind of anonymous, a hydraulic functionality. And then the world of politics is a worldofa sovereign, generally masculine, decision. The peculiaras of the this geographical and historical phenomenology of prisons at ruthe's presenting is at actually the domains of taxations, of budgets, of competition between different police forces,. All of whom are trying to arrest same african american drivers as they move through all of these under funded jurisdictions. It's a compulsion that puts the politics into the economics.