{"id":9159,"date":"2015-06-17T06:02:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2015-06-17T06:02:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:02:59","slug":"prisons-without-walls-were-all-inmates-in-the-american-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9159","title":{"rendered":"Prisons Without Walls: We\u2019re All Inmates in the American Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/prisons_without_walls_were_all_inmates_in_the_american_police_state\" target=\"_blank\">Prisons Without Walls: We\u2019re All Inmates in the American Police State<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free\u2014to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation wants him to think, feel and act. . . . To him the walls of his prison are invisible and he believes himself to be free.\u201d\u2014Aldous Huxley,\u00a0<em>A Brave New World Revisited<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.writeaprisoner.com\/prison-slang.aspx#F\">Free worlders<\/a>\u201d is prison slang for those who are not incarcerated behind prison walls.\u00a0 Supposedly, those fortunate souls live in the \u201cfree world.\u201d However, appearances can be deceiving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I got closer to retiring from the Federal Bureau of Prisons,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.policestateusa.com\/2014\/prison-security-american-people\/\">writes former prison employee Marlon Brock<\/a>, \u201cit began to dawn on me that the security practices we used in the prison system were being implemented outside those walls.\u201d In fact, if Brock is right, then we \u201cfree worlders\u201d do live in a prison\u2014albeit, one without visible walls.<\/p>\n<p>In federal prisons, cameras are everywhere in order to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.policestateusa.com\/2014\/prison-security-american-people\/\">maintain \u201csecurity\u201d and keep track of the prisoners<\/a>. Likewise, the \u201cfree world\u201d is populated with video surveillance and tracking devices. From surveillance cameras in stores and street corners to license plate readers (with the ability to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pubrecord.org\/nation\/11262\/murky-legality-philadelphia-police\/\">log some 1,800 license plates per hour<\/a>) on police cars, our movements are being tracked virtually everywhere. With this increasing use of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3096380\/Iris-scanners-identify-REFLECTIONS-Minority-Report-style-tech-used-40ft-away.html\">iris scanners<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/06\/11\/facial-recognition-technology-is-everywhere-it-may-not-be-legal\/\">facial recognition software<\/a>\u2014which drones are equipped with\u2014there would seem to be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/baddataday\/\">nowhere to hide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prisons Without Walls: We\u2019re All Inmates in the American Police State \u201cIt is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free\u2014to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[338,6420,6419,5723,765],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-freedom","tag-john-whitehead","tag-prison","tag-rutherford-institute","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9160,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}