Government policies that have drastically slashed social services have been accompanied by particularly brutal forms of regulation of racial minorities: mass imprisonment at rates far exceeding any other place on Earth or any time in the history of the free world; roundup and deportation of undocumented immigrants, often tearing families apart; abuse of children held in juvenile detention centers or locked up in adult prisons, some for the rest of their lives; official and unofficial infliction of torture in police stations and prison cells; and rampant medical neglect that kills.
